Research from the Hayabusa2 Organic Macromolecule Team published in “Science”

March 6, 2023

According to the press release announcement from The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on 24th February, the results from their Analysis Team’s “Initial Analysis Organic Macromolecule Team” have been published in the American scientific Journal “Science”, on February 24, 2023 (JST).

Press Release from JAXA

JAXA | The dark Macromolecular organic matter of asteroid Ryugu: research from the Hayabusa2 Organic Macromolecule Team published in “Science”

We are honor that our FT-IR microscope system FT/IR-6100 w/ IRT-5200 have contributed to analyze those sample in the part of this analysis project.

Paper title:Macromolecular organic matter in samples of the asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Journal:Science
DOI:10.1126/science.abn9057

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