Three times humanity has visited asteroids and risked everything to collect a sample from their surface. But why take on such audacious challenges? And what have we learned?
This 📺 is based on the paper, "The science from asteroid sample return missions", which reviews key results from the two #JAXA Hayabusa & the #NASA OSIRIS-REx missions for an interdisciplinary audience (those who don't casually talk about phyllosilicates).
Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22182
Tasker, Connolly & Tachibana (2026)
