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Detailed explanation-1: -On April 25, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) confirmed that Hayabusa2 successfully created an artificial crater on asteroid Ryugu.
Detailed explanation-2: -Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission continued its unprecedented explorations today by apparently creating an artificial crater in an asteroid, a space exploration first.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Japanese spacecraft successfully blasted a crater into a space rock called Ryugu, the mission confirmed today (April 25), releasing an animation showing how the impact changed the asteroid’s surface.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hayabusa2 is a Japanese spacecraft that explored asteroid Ryugu (162173) from June 2018 to November 2019. It dispatched a series of landers and a penetrator, and it collected multiple samples from the asteroid. JAXA launched Hayabusa2 in December 2014 to collect samples from Ryugu.
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.