Japan Is Landing on an Asteroid Today and You Can Watch It Live!

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Japan's Hayabusa2 mission is touching down on an asteroid, where it will grab a sample to bring back to Earth.

Once sampling is complete, it will take the spacecraft about 11 hours to return to its "home position." The spacecraft still has more work to do at Ryugu, including releasing one more small rover onto the asteroid's surface, before heading home at the end of this year.

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