Professor Shogo Tachibana of the University of Tokyo Organization for Planetary and Space Science (UTOPS)gave a talk titled “What Did Hayabusa2 Bring Back?” at Local Knowledge MeetUp Spring 2024.

In the talk, he introduced the Hayabusa2 sample return mission to the asteroid Ryugu and discussed what the returned samples reveal about the formation and early history of the Solar System, including the origins of materials that contributed to the development of Earth and its oceans.

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