Japan's probe Hayabusa 2 shoots a bullet in to an Asteroid, to discover how life began
R Sinduja
News Editor
The Japanese spacecraft 'Hayabusa 2' has been shadowing Ryugu asteroid for nearly a year. Owing to its data collecting mission, it has fired a sampling bullet into the surface of the asteroid, to retrieve organic materials samples of the asteroid. The researchers say that the samples collected from the asteroid can provide some clues to support a hypothesis of how water & life formed on the surface of Earth.
