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. 2023 May 30;14:3107. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38518-1

Fig. 3. Comparison of asteroid sample return missions.

Fig. 3

A Itokawa and Hayabusa mission. The photograph of Itokawa, the shooting date on 1-March-2007 (Itokawa photo, spacecraft image, and mission logo all credit: JAXA). B Ryugu and Hayabusa2 mission. The photograph of Ryugu, the shooting date on 30-June-2018 (Credit: JAXA, Univ. Tokyo, Kochi Univ., Rikkyo Univ., Nagoya Univ., Chiba Inst. Tech., Meiji Univ., Univ. Aizu, AIST, spacecraft image and mission logo credit: JAXA). C Bennu and OSIRIS-REx mission (Bennu photo, spacecraft image and mission logo credit: NASA). The basic properties of the objects for size, density, albedo, composition, with spacecrafts for mission durations are shown.