A Japanese spacecraft has successfully dropped asteroid samples from space. The samples landed safely in the Australian Outback. The container carrying the asteroid soil samples was dropped from 220,000 kilometers in space by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, confirmed the container, or capsule, had landed in Australia on Sunday. The unpiloted Hayabusa2 was launched in December 2014. It arrived near the asteroid Ryugu in June 2018. Its mission was to gather soil samples that may provide information about how our solar system formed. The spacecraft touched down twice on Ryugu, which sits more than 300 million kilometers from Earth. The first touchdown took place in February 2019, when Hayabusa2 collected surface dust samples. Then, in July 2019, the spacecraft collected samples from below the surface of Ryugu. It did so by landing in a hole that it blasted open.
Title: Japanese Asteroid Samples Make it Back to Earth
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/C.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Japanese Asteroid Samples Make it Back to Earth' data-article-id='5297'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7667'>A Japanese spacecraft has successfully dropped asteroid samples from space.</span> <span data-start-time='7667' data-end-time='13833'> The samples landed safely in the Australian Outback.</span> <span data-start-time='13833' data-end-time='28896'>The container carrying the asteroid soil samples was dropped from 220,000 kilometers in space by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft.</span> <span data-start-time='28896' data-end-time='43188'>Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, confirmed the container, or capsule, had landed in Australia on Sunday.</span> <span data-start-time='43188' data-end-time='50563'>The unpiloted Hayabusa2 was launched in December 2014.</span> <span data-start-time='50563' data-end-time='58042'> It arrived near the asteroid Ryugu in June 2018.</span> <span data-start-time='58042' data-end-time='68167'>Its mission was to gather soil samples that may provide information about how our solar system formed.</span> <span data-start-time='68167' data-end-time='78750'>The spacecraft touched down twice on Ryugu, which sits more than 300 million kilometers from Earth.</span> <span data-start-time='78750' data-end-time='90688'>The first touchdown took place in February 2019, when Hayabusa2 collected surface dust samples.</span> <span data-start-time='90688' data-end-time='100417'>Then, in July 2019, the spacecraft collected samples from below the surface of Ryugu.</span> <span data-start-time='100417' data-end-time='105583'>It did so by landing in a hole that it blasted open.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/C.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=16527 data-hint-location='50563' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/what_is_an_asteroid.wav'>What is an asteroid?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='a small rocky body orbiting the sun'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/a_television_show.wav'><span>a television show</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/a_small_rocky_body_orbiting_the_sun.wav'><span>a small rocky body orbiting the sun</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/the_bottom_of_a_rock.wav'><span>the bottom of a rock</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/an_electrical_wire.wav'><span>an electrical wire</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=16528 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/what_country_successfully_dropped_asteroid_samples_from_space___.wav'>What country successfully dropped asteroid samples from space? </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='Japan'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/china.wav'><span>China</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/germany.wav'><span>Germany</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/japan.wav'><span>Japan</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/russia.wav'><span>Russia</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=16529 data-hint-location='7667' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/asteroid_samples_landed_safely_in_the__blank_.wav'>Asteroid samples landed safely in the <span class='blank'>Australian Outback</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='Australian Outback'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/peruvian_rainforest.wav'><span>Peruvian Rainforest</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/japanese_sea.wav'><span>Japanese Sea</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/australian_outback.wav'><span>Australian Outback</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4772/sahara_desert.wav'><span>Sahara Desert</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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