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Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...
The samples were originally collected by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2. The spacecraft spent more than a year investigating Ryugu before returning to Earth. As it approached our planet ...
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Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe departed for Earth on Nov. 13 after completing its mission to explore and collect samples from the asteroid Ryugu. It had been on a mission to investigate the ...
The Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is thought to have detonated an explosive charge on the asteroid it is exploring. The idea was to create an artificial crater on the object known as Ryugu.
The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...