Japan's bid to collect samples from asteroid

A Japanese rocket lifted off today with the world’s first probe designed to bring back samples from the surface of an asteroid, a journey that will take four years and cover nearly 400 million miles.

Japan's bid to collect samples from asteroid

A Japanese rocket lifted off today with the world’s first probe designed to bring back samples from the surface of an asteroid, a journey that will take four years and cover nearly 400 million miles.

If successful, Muses-C will be the first probe to make a two-way trip to an asteroid.

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