Live from asteroid Ryugu: analysis of extraterrestrial samples using atomic force microscopy and infrared spectroscopy
… of the Hayabusa 2 space mission, launched on 13 December 2014 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the … A capsule containing more than 5 grams of surface samples was then brought back on the return journey, landing in the … microscope (AFM) with a pulsed infrared laser. His aim was to perform infrared (IR) spectroscopy on a nanometric …
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