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On December 5th, 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission successfully returned samples it had collected from the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 162173 Ryugu home.
China has unveiled a new lab to promote deep-Earth science and advance detection technologies, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR). The lab, under the coordination of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, aims to become a research institute with international influence. It will gather research resources and cooperate with international counterparts in several areas including deep structure exploration, deep resource exploration and ultra-deep borehole. It will also promote the sharing of deep-Earth big data and equipment for deep-Earth exploration. Plenty of energ...