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china launches tianwen-2 mission to collect sample near earth asteroid


China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission Wednesday, sending Tianwen-2 to sample a near Earth asteroid and later survey a main belt comet.

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