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  • shootnstarz

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    ROBOTS LAND ON NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID: Today, the Japanese space agency made history by landing a pair of robots on diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu. The tiny explorers are now hopping across the space rock's rugged surface and sending unprecedented pictures back to Earth. Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that can approach our planet closer than Moon, so exploring it is important. Learn more on today's edition of Spaceweather.com.








    Above: One of the newly-landed rovers took this picture in mid-hop as it was making a short jump across the asteroid's surface. Credit: JAXA
     

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    If they can get the robot to the asteroid, they could conceivably get a small payload and send it back to earth. Does not require a huge rocket for the return trip and I bet many are thinking along those lines. First there has to be something out there worth the expense to do it.

    Plinker said
    Pretty cool that one of those craft is going to scoop up a sample of the asteroid and then return to earth with sample.
     
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