Why spend so much time and money on this one planet when there are at least seven others in our solar system, more than 200 moons, countless asteroids and much more besides?
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Why spend so much time and money on this one planet when there are at least seven others in our solar system, more than 200 moons, countless asteroids and much more besides?
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully dropped an explosive designed to make a crater on an asteroid and collect its underground samples to find possible clues to the origin of the solar system.