Monday, 14 June 2010

Space probe with 'asteroid sample' lands on Earth | Science | guardian.co.uk

The Hayabusa

The Hayabusa probe landed in the Australian desert ending a journey to the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa, above. Photograph: Ho/Reuters

A Japanese space probe has landed in the Australian outback after a seven-year voyage to an asteroid, safely returning a capsule containing a unique sample of dust, Japanese mission controllers said today.

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