A Czech-led consortium was the first to see the 3D structure of organic material older than the Earth

2024-08-20T08:20:59+00:009. August 2024|

An international, Czech-led consortium was the first to observe the 3D structure of preserved organic matter from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. These rare samples were collected by the Japanese Aeronautic eXploration Agency JAXA‘s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft in 2019. In 2022, JAXA first allocated these samples to only a few countries, including [...]