Remote sensing data sheds light on when and how asteroid Ryugu lost its water

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Providence RI (SPX) Jan 06, 2021

Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. While analysis of those returned samples is just getting underway, researchers are using data from the spacecraft's other instruments to reveal new details about the asteroid's past. In a study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers offer an explanation for why Ryugu i

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