Tag Archives: Asia Pacific

The Chinese capsule returns to Earth with lunar rocks

BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh specimens of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Chang5’s investigation capsule arrived in the Siziwang district of the Inner Mongolia region, state media reported immediately at 2:00 a.m. (1800 …

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Japan’s space agency gets enough soil, gas from the eclipse

TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s space agency officials said Tuesday they found more than the expected amount of soil and gases inside a small capsule that the country’s Haibusa 2 spacecraft brought back from a distant planet earlier this month, a mission it hailed as a landmark in the planets. . …

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Bird flu has spread to the 10th Japanese province

By Aaron Sheldrick, Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak has spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the country’s pre-47 prefectures, officials have ordered clearing after more poultry deaths. File photo: Officers in protective uniforms work on a chicken farm, where an …

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Bird flu has spread to the 10th Japanese province

By Aaron Sheldrick, Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak has spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the country’s pre-47 prefectures, officials have ordered clearing after more poultry deaths. File photo: Officers in protective uniforms work on a chicken farm, where an …

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