Japan's space capsule carrying asteroid samples returns to Earth (1/3)

This handout photograph taken and released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on December 6, 2020 shows a scine of JAXA's Hayabusa-2 probe's sample dropping to earth after landing on and gathering material from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres from Earth, seen from Coober Pedy in South Australia. In a streak of light across the night sky, samples collected from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth on December 6 after being dropped off by Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2. (Photo/Agencies)

This handout photograph taken and released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on December 6, 2020 shows recovery operations of the re-entry capsule, carrying samples collected from a distant asteroid after being dropped off by Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2, following its landing in South Australia. (Photo/Agencies)

This handout photograph taken and released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on December 6, 2020 shows the re-entry capsule, carrying samples collected from a distant asteroid after being dropped off by Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2, following its landing in South Australia. (Photo/Agencies)