Asteroid Sample-Return Is Next New Frontiers Mission
NASA plans to launch a probe to a primordial carbonaceous asteroid in 2016 for an $800 million New Frontiers mission to bring back a sample for study on Earth. Japan has returned tiny samples of the asteroid Itakowa, but the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith...
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