Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Has Reached Asteroid Ryugu and Learned Its Secrets
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached the asteroid Ryugu last year and has more recently shot a 5-gram projectile at the asteroid, to retrieve some surface samples. This near-Earth asteroid is approximately 1 kilometer in width, which is far too small to see it 350 million km here on Earth. Thanks to the samples collected on Ryugu’s […]
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