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NASA receives first Sample of Asteroid Ryugu

American Space Agency, NASA, has received its first sample of asteroid Ryugu that returned to Earth in December 2020 by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
Current Affairs Samples from asteroid Ryugu is one of the first samples to leave Japan for preliminary investigation. Mike Zolensky was one of the first scientists to examine these samples so as to determine its basic nature.

Sample analyses were performed in Scanning Electron Microscopy Lab in Structural Engineering Division of Johnson.
Published date : 06 Jul 2021 04:04PM

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