Unveiling the secrets of a habitable world with JAXA's small-body missions
Abstract
After the return of Hayabusa from asteroid Itokawa in 2010, the Japanese space agency JAXA developed a plan to investigate how our planet became habitable. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft mission to the asteroid Ryugu is just one part of this exploration that aims to track water and organics throughout our Solar System.
- Publication:
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Nature Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- April 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1038/s41550-019-0745-8
- Bibcode:
- 2019NatAs...3..284F