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Deep-sea fish giving marine experts food for thought

TOYAMA, Japan - This rarely seen deep-sea fish called ''Ryugu no Tsukai'' (slender oarfish) -- or ''Messenger from the Sea God's Palace'' -- drifted ashore in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, in December 2009 and is now on display as a specimen at Uozu Aquarium in the same prefecture on Feb. 3, 2010.

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Capsule from JAXA's Hayabusa2 space probe

A capsule used to send asteroid samples to Earth from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe is displayed to the public at Sagamihara City Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture on March 12, 2021. The capsule from Hayabusa2 landed in an Australian desert on Dec. 6, 2020, containing more than 5.4 grams of soil samples from the Ryugu asteroid.

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Mysterious fish on display at aquarium in central Japan

A giant oarfish, a fish species usually living in deep tropical seas, is on display at the Niigata City Aquarium in central Japan on Feb. 9, 2016. The 3.3-meter-long fish, weighing 14.5 kilograms, was found in a fixed fishing net off Sadogashima island the previous day. Little is known about the biology of the fish with a silver white long scaleless body and a red dorsal fin. The fish is known in Japan as "Ryugu no tsukai," or "Messenger from Dragon palace," an undersea palace in Japanese folklore. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mysterious fish on display at aquarium in central Japan

A giant oarfish, a fish species usually living in deep tropical seas, is on display at the Niigata City Aquarium in central Japan on Feb. 9, 2016. The 3.3-meter-long fish, weighing 14.5 kilograms, was found in a fixed fishing net off Sadogashima island the previous day. Little is known about the biology of the fish with a silver white long scaleless body and a red dorsal fin. The fish is known in Japan as "Ryugu no tsukai," or "Messenger from Dragon palace," an undersea palace in Japanese folklore. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Capsule from JAXA's Hayabusa2 space probe

A capsule used to send asteroid samples to Earth from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe is displayed to the public at Sagamihara City Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture on March 12, 2021. The capsule from Hayabusa2 landed in an Australian desert on Dec. 6, 2020, containing more than 5.4 grams of soil samples from the Ryugu asteroid.

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Parachute used for capsule's return from Hayabusa2 space probe

A parachute used to send a capsule containing asteroid samples to Earth from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe is displayed to the public at Sagamihara City Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture on March 12, 2021. The capsule from Hayabusa2 landed in an Australian desert on Dec. 6, 2020, containing more than 5.4 grams of soil samples from the Ryugu asteroid.

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Parachute used for capsule's return from Hayabusa2 space probe

A parachute used to send a capsule containing asteroid samples to Earth from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe is displayed to the public at Sagamihara City Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture on March 12, 2021. The capsule from Hayabusa2 landed in an Australian desert on Dec. 6, 2020, containing more than 5.4 grams of soil samples from the Ryugu asteroid.

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Capsule from JAXA's Hayabusa2 space probe

A capsule used to send asteroid samples to Earth from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe is displayed to the public at Sagamihara City Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture on March 12, 2021. The capsule from Hayabusa2 landed in an Australian desert on Dec. 6, 2020, containing more than 5.4 grams of soil samples from the Ryugu asteroid.

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

A monitor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019, shows the Hayabusa2 space probe -- the black, off-center object in the image -- after it landed on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Deep-sea fish giving marine experts food for thought

TOYAMA, Japan - This rarely seen deep-sea fish called ''Ryugu no Tsukai'' (slender oarfish) -- or ''Messenger from the Sea God's Palace'' -- drifted ashore in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, in December 2009 and is now on display as a specimen at Uozu Aquarium in the same prefecture on Feb. 3, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Hayabusa2 capsule lands in southern Australia

Shutaro Omura, minister at the Japanese Embassy in Australia, meets the press in Coober Pedy in the early hours of Dec. 6, 2020, as he visits the southern Australian town to see the landing of the capsule from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe. The agency said the capsule landed in a desert in the town, carrying what scientists hope to be samples from the ancient Ryugu asteroid.

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Hayabusa2 capsule lands in southern Australia

Shutaro Omura (far L), minister at the Japanese Embassy in Australia, looks up to the sky in Coober Pedy in the early hours of Dec. 6, 2020, to see the landing of the capsule from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe. The agency said the capsule landed in a desert in the southern Australian town, carrying what scientists hope to be samples from the ancient Ryugu asteroid.

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Release of Hayabusa2 capsule

Reporters wait to see a live broadcast of the release from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 space probe of a capsule containing two samples from the 4.6-billion-year-old Ryugu asteroid above Earth on Dec. 5, 2020, at JAXA's campus in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Hayabusa2 space mission

Photo taken in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 11, 2019, shows a monitor displaying Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency employees celebrating in the control room of its facility in the Kanagawa Prefecture city after they received data suggesting the Hayabusa2 space probe made a successful second touchdown on the Ryugu asteroid 250 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hayabusa2 space mission

Photo taken in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 11, 2019, shows a monitor displaying Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency employees celebrating in the control room of its facility in the Kanagawa Prefecture city after they received data suggesting the Hayabusa2 space probe made a successful second touchdown on the Ryugu asteroid 250 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hayabusa2 space mission

Photo taken in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 11, 2019, shows a monitor displaying Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency employees celebrating in the control room of its facility in the Kanagawa Prefecture city after they received data suggesting the Hayabusa2 space probe made a successful second touchdown on the Ryugu asteroid 250 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hayabusa2 space mission

Photo taken in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 11, 2019, shows a monitor displaying Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency employees celebrating in the control room of its facility in the Kanagawa Prefecture city after they received data suggesting the Hayabusa2 space probe made a successful second touchdown on the Ryugu asteroid 250 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hayabusa2 space mission

Photo taken in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 11, 2019, shows a monitor displaying a video feed from the control room at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's facility in the Kanagawa Prefecture city before the Hayabusa2 space probe's second touchdown on the Ryugu asteroid 250 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hayabusa2 space mission

Photo taken in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 11, 2019, shows a monitor displaying a video feed from the control room at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's facility in the Kanagawa Prefecture city before the Hayabusa2 space probe's second touchdown on the Ryugu asteroid 250 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Small carry-on impactor of Hayabusa2

Employees of Nippon Koki Co., which designed a small carry-on impactor mounted on Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe, celebrate at the company's factory in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 5, 2019, after the spacecraft ejected the impactor over the Ryugu asteroid to create an artificial crater, part of its mission 300 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Small carry-on impactor of Hayabusa2

Photo taken in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 20, 2019, shows a small carry-on impactor, the same type mounted on the country's Hayabusa2 space probe. Hayabusa2 ejected the impactor April 5 in an experiment to shoot a projectile onto the Ryugu asteroid, 300 million kilometers from Earth, to create an artificial crater as part of its mission to explore the origin of life and the evolution of the solar system. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hayabusa2 space mission

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency professor Takashi Kubota speaks about the Hayabusa2 space probe in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on April 5, 2019. Hayabusa2 ejected a small impactor the same day, the first step in an experiment to shoot a projectile onto the Ryugu asteroid, 300 million kilometers from Earth, to create an artificial crater as part of its mission to explore the origin of life and the evolution of the solar system. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hayabusa2 space mission

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency professor Takashi Kubota speaks about the Hayabusa2 space probe in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on April 5, 2019. Hayabusa2 ejected a small impactor the same day, the first step in an experiment to shoot a projectile onto the Ryugu asteroid, 300 million kilometers from Earth, to create an artificial crater as part of its mission to explore the origin of life and the evolution of the solar system. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency associate professor Yuichi Tsuda (2nd from R) and other JAXA officials pose for photos in front of a mockup of the Ryugu asteroid, following the Hayabusa2 space probe's landing on it, 340 million kilometers from Earth, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency associate professor Yuichi Tsuda (2nd from R) and other JAXA officials pose for photos in front of an image of the Hayabusa2 space probe's landing on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency associate professor Yuichi Tsuda (R) holds a sign saying "success" in front of an image of the Hayabusa2 space probe's landing on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency associate professor Yuichi Tsuda holds a sign saying "success" in front of an image of the Hayabusa2 space probe's landing on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency associate professor Yuichi Tsuda briefs reporters on the successful landing of the Hayabusa2 space probe on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency associate professor Yuichi Tsuda briefs reporters on the successful landing of the Hayabusa2 space probe on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency staff celebrate at its facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019, after the Hayabusa2 space probe touched down on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency staff celebrate at its facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019, after the Hayabusa2 space probe touched down on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landing of Japan's Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency associate professor Yuichi Tsuda (2nd from R) holds a sign saying "success" in front of an image of the Hayabusa2 space probe's landing on the Ryugu asteroid, 340 million kilometers from Earth, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Feb. 22, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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