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The surface of the asteroid Ryugu taken by Hayabusa-2 (lemmy.world)
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[–] zipsglacier@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Wow, this is even more amazing than I first thought

Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018.[11] It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples. It left the asteroid in November 2019 and returned the samples to Earth on 5 December 2020 UTC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2