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First peek inside Hayabusa2 capsule; JAXA officials find more than anticipated asteroid sand, gas inside They said that capsule successfully brought back asteroid gases that are clearly different from the air on Earth a first sample-return of gases from outer space. Dec 17, 2020 09:50:19 IST Officials from Japan’s space agency said Tuesday they have found more than the anticipated amount of soil and gases inside a small capsule the country’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought back from a distant asteroid this month, a mission they praised as a milestone in planetary research. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said its staff initially spotted some black particles sitting on the bottom of the capsule’s sample catcher when they pulled out the container on Monday. By Tuesday, scientists found more of the soil and gas samples in a compartment that stored those from the first of Hayabusa’s two touchdowns on the asteroid last year. ....
Mr Tsuda called the successful return of the asteroid soil and gas samples a major scientific milestone. The pan-shaped capsule, 40 centimeters in diameter, was dropped by Hayabusa2 from space to a predetermined spot in a sparsely populated Australian desert on December 6 at the end of its six-year round trip to Ryugu, more than 300 million kilometersfrom Earth. The capsule arrived in Japan last Tuesday for research that scientists hope will provide insight into the origins of the solar system and life on Earth. The capsule landed in Australia earlier this month.(Twitter) Images of the Hayabusa2 (Twitter) Hirotaka Sawada, a JAXA scientist, was the first to look inside the capsule s sample-catcher. ....
Japanese space agency JAXA opened the space capsule from Hayabusa-2 s recently returned mission to collect samples from the asteroid Ryugu on Monday, and we have a world-first in space exploration. Not only, did the agency confirm that the mission was a success, it also announced that a gas sample inside the collector differed from the atmospheric composition of the Earth. This makes it the first gas sample to be collected from deep space. Hayabusa-2 s Ryugu sample success Hayabusa-2 s mission to Ryugu took just under 6 years to accomplish. During a critical 16 months, between 2018 and 2019, the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft made two touchdowns on the surface of Ryugu to collect rocks, dust, and gas samples. ....
Hayabusa2 capsule from Ryugu mission opened to reveal good amount of asteroid samples Posted WedWednesday 16 DecDecember 2020 at 1:08am Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch s Hayabusa2 fired an impactor into the Ryugu asteroid to stir up material not previously exposed to the atmosphere. Share Print text only Cancel Japan s space agency says it has found more than the anticipated amount of soil and gases from a distant asteroid that were brought back to Earth inside a small capsule on the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Key points: Gases found in the asteroid Ryugu are being studied to see if they are related to minerals in its soil ....