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Officials from Japan's space office said Tuesday they have discovered more than the foreseen measure of soil and gases inside a little container the nation's Hayabusa2 rocket brought back from an inaccessible space rock this month, a mission they applauded as an achievement in planetary examination. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said its staff at first recognized some dark particles sitting on the lower part of the case's example catcher when they pulled out the holder on Monday. By Tuesday, researchers discovered a greater amount of the dirt and gas tests in a compartment that put away those from the first of Hayabusa's two scores on the space rock a year ago. "We have confirmed a good amount of sand apparently collected from the asteroid Ryugu, along with gases," JAXA Hay...