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Two Japanese rovers provided us with our very first video image from the surface of a moving asteroid, the result of this revolutionary mission.
The Japanese space agency JAXA has published this week the clip of 15 images and a series of photographs of the surface of the asteroid Ryugu on its website.
Image captured immediately before the Rover-1B jump on September 23, 2018 (Credit: JAXA)JAXA
The Hayabusa2 shuttle traveled for three and a half years to reach 162173 Ryugu in June. After analyzing the surface of the space rock, the ship sent its embedded MINERVA-II1 rovers to the surface on 22 September. Planes 1A and 1B were traveling safely. When the craft descended to Ryugu, he also captured images of the surface at the highest resolution up to now.
The compact robotic rovers are currently moving on the surface with their signature, which can reach 15 feet high on the asteroid and keep the rovers in the air for 15 minutes.
The next stage of the mission is for Hayabusa2 to bomb the surface, so to speak. The spacecraft will deploy a device that will explode into the atmosphere above the asteroid and launch a copper missile into the space rock. This will provide a landing site for the vessel to make very short stops at the surface and collect samples of material protected from interference.
Although pieces of space rock landed on Earth, they were contaminated by their journey into space and our atmosphere. Ryugu is a C-type asteroid which, according to scientists, has a composition very similar to that of the early solar system. These samples will be "fresh" and will give scientists an idea of the building blocks that existed at the beginning of the Universe.
Hayabusa2 is the follow – up mission to Hayabusa, who successfully met the Itokawa asteroid in 2005 and was the first to return an asteroid sample to Earth.
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Two Japanese rovers provided us with our very first video image from the surface of a moving asteroid, the result of this revolutionary mission.
The Japanese space agency JAXA has published this week the clip of 15 images and a series of photographs of the surface of the asteroid Ryugu on its website.
Image captured immediately before the Rover-1B jump on September 23, 2018 (Credit: JAXA)JAXA
The Hayabusa2 shuttle traveled for three and a half years to reach 162173 Ryugu in June. After analyzing the surface of the space rock, the ship sent its embedded MINERVA-II1 rovers to the surface on 22 September. Planes 1A and 1B were traveling safely. When the craft descended to Ryugu, he also captured images of the surface at the highest resolution up to now.
The compact robotic rovers are currently moving on the surface with their signature, which can reach 15 feet high on the asteroid and keep the rovers in the air for 15 minutes.
The next stage of the mission is for Hayabusa2 to bomb the surface, so to speak. The spacecraft will deploy a device that will explode into the atmosphere above the asteroid and launch a copper missile into the space rock. This will provide a landing site for the vessel to make very short stops at the surface and collect samples of material protected from interference.
Although pieces of space rock landed on Earth, they were contaminated by their journey into space and our atmosphere. Ryugu is a C-type asteroid which, according to scientists, has a composition very similar to that of the early solar system. These samples will be "fresh" and will give scientists an idea of the building blocks that existed at the beginning of the Universe.
Hayabusa2 is the follow – up mission to Hayabusa, who successfully met the Itokawa asteroid in 2005 and was the first to return an asteroid sample to Earth.
