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Originally Posted by dan79brooklyn
Meanwhile Japan’s Hayabusa 2 went to an asteroid, shot a hole in it and collected material to answer questions about the origin of life on earth. They dropped the material in Australia and Hayabusa will visit another asteroid. Japanese space program is very advanced.
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They did, and the have a few grams of material. Just a couple of grams, but more than most countries. NASA just recently landed a probe on an asteroid, and it collected so much material the collection device is overflowing. Hundreds of grams of material. It will return the material in 2023.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/23/927304296/a-nasa-probe-is-so-full-of-asteroid-material-that-it-now-has-a-problem
NO other country has successfully landed a rover on Mars, and have it move around. NASA has done it several times. The other attempts outside of NASA just crashed a probe into Mars.
https://time.com/3048733/nasa-mars-rover-driving-record/
25 miles on just one of the rovers. Russia landed a rover on the moon that did not quite make it 25 miles. And that was just the moon, which is of course where Niel Armstrong walked around on 51 years ago.