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The United Arab Emirates has completed a fully autonomous probe that will land on an asteroid 5 billion kilometers from Earth. If successful in 2028, it will be only the seventh asteroid ever reached by a landing probe.
After a 400-day journey across a billion kilometers, China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft just sent back the first close-up images of Kamo'oalewa, a tiny asteroid that shadows Earth's orbit around the sun. If successful, this mission could unlock secrets about how our solar system formed billions of years ago.