The Hayabusa-2 probe dropped a capsule with soil samples from an asteroid onto the Earth

This was reported by TASS with reference to the broadcast of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.

According to the agency, the capsule is expected to land in the restricted area of ​​Woomera in South Australia after about 12 hours.

Earlier it was reported that the landing module of the Chinese automatic station "Chang'e-5" left the surface of the moon and went into the orbit of the Earth satellite.

The scientific observer of the Kultura TV channel, Alexander Galkin, commented in an interview with the PolitExpert publication on the study of the lunar soil.