... looks brown, but our team says “black”! The sample return is a great success!” Said the Hayabusa2 team via Twitter...space rock, JAXA can now also claim to have the world's first sample return of a material in the gas state from deep space. So far,...
...the asteroid both remotely and on the surface, and to collect a sample to return to Earth. It is science that might hold the key to how...Once above our planet, the spacecraft will release the sample return capsule, which is equipped with a heat shield ...
... 6th December, after completing a round-trip of approximately 5.2 billion kilometres, Japan’s asteroid sample-return mission – Hayabuya2 – will drop samples of an ancient rock on to a remote test range in the Australian outback; a journey which has...
... of meteoritic material. Despite a thorough search, Yada and colleagues could find no trace of submillimetre CAIs or chondrules in the samples returned from Ryugu - neither could Pilorget and team. This, they say, when coupled with the porosity...
... house to sell the forfeited items. A Lunar Sample Return bag was among the items forfeited and listed for... Carlson. Sotheby’s auction in July 2017 of the NASA Lunar Sample Return bag. After receiving the bag, Nancy began wondering if it contained...
... programme (see table). China achieved its first lunar landing in 2013, a far side landing in 2019 and a sample return in 2020 (Chang’e 3-5), but had three more lunar spacecraft in preparation (Chang’e 6-8). Russia, by contrast, wanted to resume its...