Hayabusa capsule from asteroid

Hayabusa capsule from asteroid

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Visitors view a small capsule at the Sagamihara City Museum in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 30, 2010. The museum on the same day began exhibiting the capsule that was released from the Hayabusa unmanned space probe and retrieved in June that year after a seven-year round trip to the asteroid Itokawa. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said particles had been found in a container for asteroid surface samples inside the capsule.

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