'Roid reward - Cosmos Magazine
’Roid reward There’s nothing quite as pleasurable as exceeding expectations. Japanese scientists have peeked inside the sample capsule from Japan’s Hayabusa2 sample-return mission and found it to contain 5.4 grams of material from asteroid 162173 Ryugu. “[That’s] far above the target of one-tenth of a gram,” said Hitoshi Kuninaka, vice-president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), last weekend at a virtual meeting of the international Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The sample looks like coarse black sand, he added. “The largest grain is 1 centimetre.” ...
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