... visible from Earth, to reveal that the basalts at the landing site are unlike those returned by the Apollo and Luna sample return missions. Since the termination of these two prominent lunar missions over nearly 40 years ago...
... Moon were filled with fresh, young rocks, but the samples returned by the Apollo astronauts showed that they are in fact...a common green mineral – olivine – found in the Moon rock samples to study them in greater detail than ever before. Olivine in ...
... for transport by turning itself entirely inside-out. “While current asteroid sample return missions visit single asteroids and collect samples from one or two locations on their surface, a future mission carrying dozens of micro-sampler landers...
... acquired by the Earth. Artist’s illustration of first touchdown at asteroid Ryugu. The Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission will return samples of carbonaceous chondrites, allowing us to study how these materials formed in space, and how and...
Today, NASA’s asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will whizz round the Earth and use our planet’s gravity like a slingshot to ...
Mission control at JAXA had good cause to celebrate last night as their sample-return spacecraft, Hayabusa2, successfully touched down on an ancient asteroid 300 million kilometres from Earth to then fire a metal ...