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China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has sent back its first image from over 3 million kilometers away, as it journeys to study and eventually land on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa, aiming to collect samples and return them to Earth by 2026, while also exploring the asteroid's origins and potential threats to Earth.
China's Tianwen 2 mission was launched to study and sample the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a 'quasi-moon' of Earth, with plans to return samples by 2027 and explore comet 311P/PANSTARRS in 2035, advancing China's space exploration efforts.
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is launching to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may be a fragment of the moon, aiming to return the samples to Earth by 2027 to study the origins of Earth and the moon.