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Fig. 1

From: Methods and tools for handling, transportation, weighing, and pelletization applied to the initial analysis of volatile components in the Hayabusa2 samples

Fig. 1

Flow diagram of the volatile component analyses conducted by the Hayabusa2-Initial-Analysis Volatile sub-team. Operations 1–5 (blue boxes) were carried out without exposure to Earth’s atmosphere, whereas operations 6–8 were done in Earth’s atmosphere (gray boxes). The tools used in each operation are shown in the parentheses. The letters of the alphabet, tools “A–G”, correspond to those of the titles of subsections in the main text (e.g., “tool A” refers to subsection “(A) Sample handling stage”)

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