JAXA Hayabusa Probe Returns Material From Itokawa Asteroid
Credit: JAXA
Scientists in Japan and elsewhere will have a new batch of extraterrestrial samples to study, following confirmation that Japan’s Hayabusa sample-return probe collected and returned material from the asteroid Itokawa in its troubled seven-year mission. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...
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