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By MARI YAMAGUCHI down twice on Ryugu, de- DOCTOR ON DUTY
Associated Press spite its extremely rocky sur- Oranjestad
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said Friday the Hayabu- during the 1½ years it spent
sa2 spacecraft is on its in- near Ryugu after arriving San Nicolas
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The spacecraft left the as- space Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the Hayabusa2 space- San Nicolas Tel. 584 5712
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Scientists say they believe
the samples, especially
ones taken from under the
asteroid’s surface, contain
valuable data unaffected
by space radiation and