Soil samples from the asteroid Ryugu are seen inside a re-entry capsule at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Tuesday. Photo: JAXA via AP
Japan scientists left ‘speechless’ by samples from asteroid 300 million km away
- Samples from the Ryugu asteroid were dropped from space into the Australian desert by the Hayabusa-2 space probe earlier this month
- Researchers hope the material will shed light on the formation of the universe and perhaps offer clues about how life began on Earth
Soil samples from the asteroid Ryugu are seen inside a re-entry capsule at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Tuesday. Photo: JAXA via AP
