A conceptual image for sampling materials on the asteroid Ryugu containing uracil and niacin by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Credit: NASA Goddard/JAXA/Dan Gallagher Samples from the…
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. Credit: JAXA Although it has been nearly two years since Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid…
Left: A photograph of the rocks retrieved by Hayabusa2 from the asteroid Ryugu. Right: a zoomed-in image of the structure of one of the pieces,…
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft shot this image of the asteroid Ryugu at a distance of 40 kilometers as it approached the asteroid in 2018. Credit: JAXA…
The asteroid 1998 KY26 (the point of light located at where the two lines would cross) captured by Hyper Suprime-Cam mounted on the Subaru Telescope.…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. Credit: JAXA The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the gas collected from the sample container inside…
View of asteroid Ryugu from Hayabusa 2. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo & collaborators Just weeks after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a successful touch-and-go grab of samples…
On December 6 local time (December 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the ground of the Australian Outback from…
Hayabusa2’s reentry capsule forms a fireball in the desert sky over Australia’s Woomera Prohibited Area as it arrives back on Earth on 5 December 2020,…
Scientists at Woomera conduct a ‘dress rehearsal’ for finding and collecting the Hayabusa2 sample capsule when it lands. Credit: Trevor Ireland, ANU A Japanese space…
False color map of the surface of Ryugu with craters marked by circles. Credit: © 2020 Morota et al. Ryugu’s interaction with the sun changes…