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China launches spacecraft it says will collect samples from asteroid near Mars (www.euronews.com)
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China has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield "groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos," the country's space agency said.

The Tianwen-2 probe launched early on Thursday from southern China aboard a Long March 3-B rocket.

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