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Japanese Hopping Robotic Rovers Land On Asteroid

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Japanese Hopping Robotic Rovers Land On Asteroid
They Made It! Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu
They Made It! Japan’s Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu
In order to complete the deployment, the main spacecraft of the Hayabusa2 mission lowered itself carefully down toward the surface until it was just 180 feet (55 meters) up. After the rovers were on their way, the spacecraft raised itself back up to its typical altitude of about 12.5 miles above the asteroid’s surface (20 kilometers).

 

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Strange Visitor From Outer Space

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Strange Visitor From Outer Space

 

ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before - VLT reveals dark, reddish and highly-elongated object
ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before – VLT reveals dark, reddish and highly-elongated object
For the first time ever astronomers have studied an asteroid “ʻOumuamua” that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space. Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that this unique object was traveling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. It appears to be a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky or high-metal-content object.
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