Japan’s Hayabusa 2 Images Asteroid Blast Site

Credit: Hayabusa 2: JAXA
HOUSTON—Japan’s Hayabusa 2 sample return mission to the asteroid Ryugu has completed a low-altitude surveillance operation over the site where it dropped an explosive charge in early April to expose subsurface material for a planned second attempt to land and gather soil and rock. The April 24-25...

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