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Japanese spacecraft lands on asteroid, takes samples

Tokyo: A Japanese spacecraft successfully touched down on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, which is some 340 million km from Earth, to take samples that could provide clues on the origins of the solar system. The Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) reported that at 7.49 a.m., it began to receive data from the Hayabusa2 that […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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