The surface of Ryugu
Hayabusa 2, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) probe launched in 2014, returned to Earth with samples from near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu December 5, 2020. After its sampling mission was completed in November 2019, Hayabusa 2 fired its ion engines and returned to Earth.
It released the sample capsule on December 5, 2020 and the capsule landed at the Woomera Test Range in Australia. JAXA has shared a portion of the samples with NASA and NASA will share samples from asteroid Bennu, when OSIRIS-REx returns in 2023.
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