In July, Japanese scientists announced that they had found something inside Hayabusa’s 40cm-wide sample return capsule, but it was far from certain as to what that “something” was. Was it dusty contamination from reentry? Or was it precious asteroid dust, the very thing the sample return mission set out to capture? Now we have an answer.

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Success! Hayabusa Captured Asteroid Dust

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