A Japanese spacecraft is nearing Earth after a yearlong journey home from a distant asteroid with soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, a space agency official said Friday.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-11-japan-spacecraft-asteroid-soil-samples.html