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Japan's JAXA shares pictures of asteroid Ryugu samples it collected
short by Aishwarya Awasthi / on Saturday, 26 December, 2020
Japan's JAXA has shared pictures of the samples it collected during its mission to asteroid Ryugu. It shared an image showing the contents of the Hayabusa2 probe's sample capsule's 'C' chamber. JAXA says the largest particles in chamber 'C' were about a centimetre in size. In the picture, JAXA has marked one of the particles as an "artificial object".
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