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Russia
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Detailed explanation-1: -On 22 September, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tweeted confirmation that the mission’s twin rovers , called MINERVA-II 1A and 1B, had landed safely on the space rock Ryugu, and that both were moving on the surface.
Detailed explanation-2: -Firsts. Hayabusa2 deployed the first rovers to operate on an asteroid.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first two rovers, called HIBOU (previously Rover-1A) and OWL (previously Rover-1B), landed on asteroid Ryugu on 21 September 2018.
Detailed explanation-4: -YONAGO, JAPAN-Japan’s Hayabusa mission made history in 2010 for bringing back to Earth the first samples ever collected on an asteroid.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hayabusa2 arrived at Ryugu on June 27, 2018, collected samples from the asteroid during two touchdowns in 2019, and delivered the sample capsule back to the Earth on December 6, 2020. After delivering the capsule, the spacecraft continued on to a new mission.