TOKYO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Japan's space agency said Tuesday the Hayabusa2 space probe mission has been a perfect success and the goal of bringing back samples from a distant asteroid has been achieved, including the first samples of gas from space.
Speaking at an online news conference on Tuesday, researchers from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said that a number of blackish, sandy particles have been observed inside a storage device from the capsule that landed in an Australian desert on Dec. 6.
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