A Japanese capsule carrying the world’s first asteroid subsurface samples shot across the night atmosphere early Sunday before landing in the remote Australian Outback, completing a mission to provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-japan-capsule-asteroid-samples-australia.html…
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Chinese probe prepares to return moon rocks to Earth
A Chinese probe that landed on the moon transferred rocks to an orbiter Sunday in preparation for returning samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years, the space agency announced. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-chinese-probe-moon-earth.html…
Dust From Japan’s Asteroid-Blasting Probe Returns to Earth
Long-time Slashdot reader reminds us that in 1999 scientists discovered the asteroid Ryugu flying 300 million kilometres (or 186,411,357 miles) from earth. In 2014, Japan launched a probe to collect samples from it. Today those samples returned to earth. The International Business Times shares pictures and report:
In a streak of light across the night sky, samples collected from a distant asteroid…
Japan awaits capsule’s return with asteroid soil samples
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully released a small capsule on Saturday and sent it toward Earth to deliver samples from a distant asteroid that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on our planet, the country’s space agency said. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-japan-awaits-capsule-asteroid-soil.html…
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will drop off samples of dust and rocks from the asteroid Ryugu on 6 December before heading off to visit another asteroid Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2262019-the-hayabusa-2-spacecraft-is-about-to-deliver-asteroid-rocks-to-earth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
NASA buying Moon dust for $1
The US space agency NASA awarded contracts to four companies on Thursday to collect lunar samples for $1 to $15,000, rock-bottom prices that are intended to set a precedent for future exploitation of space resources by the private sector. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-nasa-moon.html…
China’s Chang’e 5 is bringing back the first moon rocks in 44 years
The Chinese Chang’e 5 mission has spent two days digging on the moon and is now ready to bring back samples of lunar soil and rocks for analysis Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261810-chinas-change-5-is-bringing-back-the-first-moon-rocks-in-44-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
China: Moon probe preparing to return rock samples to Earth
China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed them within the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first time such a mission has been attempted by any country in more than 40 years. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-china-moon-probe-samples-earth.html…
Watch China spacecraft land on the moon in this amazing video
A spectacular video from China’s Chang’e 5 lander reveals its successful touchdown on the moon as it softly set down to collect the first lunar samples in 44 years. Source: https://www.livescience.com/china-chang-e-5-moon-landing-lunar-sample-video.html
China’s ‘space dream’: A Long March to the Moon and beyond
China’s landing this week of a probe on the Moon—the first attempt by any nation to retrieve lunar samples in four decades—underlined just how far the country has come in achieving its space dream. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-china-space-moon.html…