Newslink: Japanese Spacecraft Successfully Snags Sample of Asteroid Ryugu

in #newslink • 6 years ago

A Japanese asteroid probe has grabbed its first space-rock sample.

The Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully nabbed bits of the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) asteroid Ryugu today (Feb. 21; Feb. 22 Japan time), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officials announced.

https://www.space.com/japanese-asteroid-probe-lands-ryugu.html

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