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Planetary Society

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China's Tianwen-2 mission aims to bring back invaluable asteroid samples & unlock the mysteries of comets. But this decade-long, muti-step mission won't be easy.

Tianwen-2: China’s Near-Earth asteroid and comet double-header

China is gearing up for an ambitious combined mission to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid, deliver the material to Earth, and then head off back into deep space to study a comet.

3:25 PM · Jan 19, 2023

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"unlock the mysteries of comets" I thought JAXA & govt of Japan had claimed that they unlocked the secrets of entire solar system from a fraction of a pinch of dust from asteroid Ryugu Was it a bogus caim ?

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1) Both JAXA & NASA claim that a pinch of asteroid dust will unlock not just the secrets of the sampled asteroid but that of the ENTIRE solar system, including how earth got its water & how life originated on it. #AsteroidMissions

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Robert G Charles

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Driven by hate :(