Image of Hayabusa2 sample collection (left) and sample
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The spacecraft was able to obtain this subsurface material by shooting an impactor at the asteroid, and scooping up the debris dislodged by the collision. The finding adds to the evidence that asteroid impacts early in our planet’s history may have provided some of the materials that later gave rise to life."The Ryugu material is the most primitive material in the solar system we have ever studied," Hisayoshi Yurimoto, a geoscience professor at Hokkaido University who led the initial chemical analysis of the Hayabusa2 mission, said at a recent conference, according to Space.com.
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