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Tianwen-2 Spacecraft Explores Asteroids, Comets in Deep Space

7/1/2025

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China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft, launched on May 29, 2025, is currently over 12 million kilometers from Earth, successfully operating for more than 33 days. This ambitious mission seeks to gather samples from asteroid 2016 HO3 and investigate comet 311P, promising to deepen our knowledge of asteroid formation and the mysteries of the early solar system.

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China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft, launched on May 29, 2025, is currently over 12 million kilometers from Earth, successfully operating for more than 33 days. This ambitious mission seeks to gather samples from asteroid 2016 HO3 and investigate comet 311P, promising to deepen our knowledge of asteroid formation and the mysteries of the early solar system.