[CloudHound]

Link via Twitter
https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa/status/1335039024910594049

Hats off to Japan for returning material from a distant asteroid.

Using Woomera in Oz for the landing is interesting.

[CloudHound]

To think that tiny 40cm capsule has traveled millions of miles and has returned with organic material from an distant asteroid.

[Straight Level]

Engineering heroes. As are other designers and engineers that undertake astonishing projects.
And to think many in this world prefer to worship the Kardashian and other 'celebrities'

[Awful Charlie]

'slobrities'
FIFY

[Straight Level]

'slobrities'
FIFY

Spot on

[kanga]

Capsule safely retrieved

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55201662

[Paul_Sengupta]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55201662

A capsule containing the first significant quantities of rock from an asteroid is in "perfect" shape, according to scientists.

The container with material from a space rock called Ryugu parachuted down near Woomera in South Australia on Saturday evening (GMT).

Edit: Ah, great minds...

[Trent772]

That will be Covid 20 sorted then when they open it up

[golfcharlie]

I think CloudHound may be in advance of the Japanese labs. Well Done!
Organic Material? Not yet demonstrated. If it is indeed organic, this may be a Nobel Prize.

[Rjk983]

I think CloudHound may be in advance of the Japanese labs. Well Done!
Organic Material? Not yet demonstrated. If it is indeed organic, this may be a Nobel Prize.

Anyone remember The Andromeda Strain?

[Flintstone]

...has returned with organic material from an distant asteroid.

Fake news.