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Hayabusa-2 Automatic Interplanetary Station Launched Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency December 3, 2014 years, overcame, according to scientists, over 3.2 billion kilometers. After a 3.5-year journey, the probe approached the site its destination – the asteroid Ryugu from the Apollo group. Diameter 2.8 billion of this celestial body today kilometers, is about 900 meters.
Hayabusa-2, according to the plan of the Japanese, will pursue an asteroid a year and a half, having made three attempts to take a sample of its soil, which will subsequently be delivered to Earth. First try to board the Ryuga will be undertaken by an interplanetary station already coming autumn. Researchers hope that in the resulting soil there will be traces of organic matter and water, or even more valuable substances, which hypothetically can be mined from asteroids.
It is noteworthy that Hayabusa-2, moving in space with a huge speed, literally travels to the future, according the well-known theory of relativity proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905. It is a slight movement in time, just a few seconds, in relation to us. Other in words, if the Japanese space probe had been all this time on Earth, he would have “aged” a few seconds more than during such a journey …
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