Professor Shogo Tachibana of the UTOPS gave a public lecture at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS), California Institute of Technology, on February 25.

In his lecture, titled “Sample Return Missions from Small Bodies — Hayabusa, Hayabusa2, and Beyond,” he introduced JAXA’s sample return missions and recent research on materials returned from small bodies in the Solar System.

After the lecture, he also met with students and early-career researchers and discussed ongoing research in planetary science.

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