Enlarge / Ryugu’s rubble pile includes some small fragments left over from our Solar System’s formation. reader comments 33 with When JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft delivered samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in late 2020, anticipation was high. What could the space rock possibly be waiting to tell us? Asteroids are time capsules of the Solar ..
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Enlarge / First spotted by astronomers in May 1999, Ryugu is essentially a large collection of loose rubble. reader comments 22 with 19 posters participating Share this story The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 returned to Earth in December 2020 bearing soil samples collected from a nearby asteroid, 162173 Ryugu. Those samples were divided between six scientific ..
reader comments 74 with 55 posters participating Share this story Early on Sunday morning, the skies above a secluded military complex in central Australia will be brightened by a fireball plummeting to Earth. It will be a flamboyant homecoming for the sample return capsule from Hayabusa2, a Japanese spacecraft launched almost exactly six years ago ..
Enlarge / Ryugu’s rubble-pile surface, taken by MASCOT shortly before it hit and started bouncing. reader comments 40 with 36 posters participating Share this story For the last few months, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been engaged in various acts of interplanetary aggression, shooting the asteroid Ryugu in order to blast free material for a return ..
Enlarge / The timeline of the approach and sampling process. reader comments 52 with 43 posters participating Share this story Today, in an extended Twitter thread and ensuing press conference, JAXA’s Hayabusa2 team announced that everything had gone well in gathering an asteroid sample for eventual return to Earth. While we don’t yet know about ..