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Japan capsule carrying asteroid samples lands in Australia

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Japan's space agency said signals showed a capsule released by the country's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has landed on a remote area in southern Australia as planned, to bring home long-awaited asteroid samples that could explain the origin of life. It was great, It was a beautiful fireball, and I was so impressed," said JAXA's Hayabusa2 project manager Yuichi Tsuda as he celebrated the successful capsule return.