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The capsule, launched by Haibusa 2, will enter the sky of South Australia’s Woomera as early as Sunday.
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Japanese spacecraft Hibusa 2 The eclipse will leave the capsule on a remote Australian island carrying fragments of asteroids six years after the mission began. According to scientists, the collected asteroids will shed light on the structure of the solar system and the origin of life.
The capsule will enter the skies of Woomera, South Australia, early Sunday morning. By that time the probe will have completed a round-trip of about 6 billion km, including two short stops on the surface of the moving asteroid.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the unmanned spacecraft would launch the capsule at an altitude of about 220,000 km.
The re-entry of the capsule on Sunday will also mark the culmination of the mission that left the Tanegashima space center in southwestern Japan in December 2014. Haibusa means falcon in Japanese. The Haibusa 2 mission reached a stable position above the planet Raigu in June 2018. The spacecraft reached that position after traveling in the orbit of the Sun for more than three years..2 billion km.
According to a report by The GuardianShortly after landing on Raigad, Hayabusa 2 fired a small tantalum shot at the planet’s surface to cut off the collection dust, before blasting back to its holding position. The spacecraft collected debris from a device called the Muppler Horn hanging from its gap.
Five months later, it became the first spacecraft to land a second land and collect fragments of rock and soil beneath the surface of a lod.b billion-year-old asteroid.
Those sub-surface samples are thought to contain carbon and organic matter in the same condition as when the solar system was formed because they have been protected from space radiation and other environmental factors.
The capsule that will reach Earth could help scientists unravel some of the deepest mysteries of our universe.
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