Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe made a “perfect” touchdown Thursday on a distant asteroid, collecting samples from beneath the surface in an unprecedented mission that could shed light on the origins of the solar system.
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https://phys.org/news/2019-07-japan-hayabusa2-probe-touchdown-asteroid.html