The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa mission exemplifies this effort by returning over a thousand tiny particles from asteroid Itokawa. Asteroid Itokawa, classified as an S ...
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In addition, the Japan Pavilion will display the world's largest rock from Mars and some actual samples of sand that asteroid explorers Hayabusa and Hayabusa 2 brought back to the Earth from asteroids ...