Saturday, December 05, 2020

Japan awaits capsule's return with asteroid soil samples

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully released a small capsule on Saturday and sent it toward Earth to deliver samples from a distant asteroid that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on our planet, the country's space agency said.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-japan-awaits-capsule-asteroid-soil.html