Hayabusa2 Mission: Japan lays a spacecraft on remote asteroid Ryugu in order to sample underground soil today.

Tokyo – The Japanese space agency said that the data transmitted by the probe Hayabusa2 indicated to have landed Thursday on a distant asteroid and to be acquitted of its historic mission of collecting underground samples that, hope the scientists , will provide clues about the origin of the solar system. Hayabusa2's was created a landing crater in April dropping a copper impactor. Thursday's mission was to land inside this crater and collect underground samples that scientists say contain more valuable data.

Hayabusa2 is the first to have successfully collected soil samples underground from an asteroid. It precedes a similar mission planned by the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) team on another asteroid.

JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, has announced confirmation of data indicating that Hayabusa2 would have landed and reportedly increased safely after the planned sampling.

Takashi Kubota, a member of the Hayabusa2 project at JAXA, was radiant when he went to an unannounced press conference to announce the result. As soon as success was announced at the command center, everyone stood up, applauded and applauded, some of them making signs of victory.

"It was a success, a great success," said Kubota. "We have succeeded in all the planned procedures."

The probe had begun its gradual descent from home on Wednesday. During the final phase of landing Thursday, Hayabusa2 hovered at a height of 100 feet above the asteroid and quickly regained its landing mark to the left of the previous mission.

The actual landing only lasted a few seconds. At touchdown, Hayabusa2 would have extended his pickup tube to the ground, shot a pinball-sized bale to crack the surface and sucked the debris that had been carried away. The landing was a challenge for Hayabusa2 because of the risk of being hit by dust and debris remaining in the crater, Kubota said.

"Everything went perfectly, even better than perfect, as if Hayabusa read our thoughts," he said.

He added that JAXA plans to send the satellite, which was returning to the starting position, above the asteroid, to examine the landing site from above.

The asteroid, named Ryugu after a submarine dragon palace in a Japanese tale, lies about 180 million kilometers from the Earth. Hayabusa2 should leave the asteroid to return to Earth at the end of next year, with samples for a scientific study.