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Sampling a 'quasi-moon': What's next for China's newly launched Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission
The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...
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Asteroids hitting the Moon may have spiked its magnetic field
A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some lunar regions.
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What happened to the moon’s magnetism? Scientists may finally have the answer
A team of scientists may finally have the answer. The study suggests that the moon’s magnetic rocks could be the result of a ...
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First Chinese mission to sample an asteroid starts its journey
China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...
China Launches Mission to Capture Pieces of an Unusual Asteroid
The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.
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