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Japan capsule with asteroid samples retrieved in Australia

by Mari Yamaguchi
| December 5, 2020 4:06 PM

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said its helicopter search team has retrieved a capsule, which is carrying asteroid samples that could explain the origin of life, that landed on a remote area in southern Australia as planned Sunday.

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