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Hayabusa 1 was already a pioneering act. But Japan’s second space mission could bring in enough stardust to keep asteroid researchers busy for years. On Sunday, after a six-year mission, the space probe successfully landed in the Australian desert.
The animated rendering shows the Hayabusa-2 probe releasing a small capsule containing asteroid dust, which then lands on Earth in a parachute.
The round trip of the Japanese space probe “Hayabusa2” took six years. You have now successfully completed your mission to the asteroid Ryugu and sent a sample capsule to Earth. The Japanese space agency Jaxa announced on Sunday morning (local time) that a helicopter had found the small container in the landing zone. It is located in the desert of the Woomera test site for the aerospace industry in South Australia, about 460 kilometers north of the city of Adelaide. Researchers wait in the 4.6 billion-year-old material container of the asteroid Ryugu, which originates in the early days of the solar system.
