A Japanese vehicle crashes on an asteroid surface to 340 million kilometers

TOKYO (AP)

A unmanned Japanese spacecraft landed yesterday on an asteroid 340 million kilometers from Earth, the Japanese space agency said. The Hayabusa 2 arrived at a 900-meter asteroid called the Ryugu, which began to land on the surface of the asteroid around 20 hours, Thursday around 13 hours.

The aircraft is expected to return in late 2020 with samples of the asteroid, which was expected to land on the asteroid in October, but was postponed as the surface was more rocky than expected, the report said. # 39; agency.