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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 25971628" data-attributes="member: 562115">Update:Japan's space agency says it has found more than the anticipated amount of soil and gases from a distant asteroid that were brought back to Earth inside a small capsule on the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said its staff initially spotted some black particles sitting on the bottom of the capsule's sample catcher when they pulled out the container on Monday.By Tuesday, scientists found more of the soil and gas samples in a compartment that stored those from the first of Hayabusa2's two touchdowns on the asteroid last year."We have confirmed a good amount of sand apparently collected from the asteroid Ryugu, along with gases," JAXA Hayabusa2 project manager Yuichi Tsuda said.Hayabusa2 is now on an 11-year journey to another asteroid after dropping off the capsule at Earth.</blockquote>

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