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[ad_1] Tomasz Nowakowski October 5, 2018 Artistic view of MASCOT landing on the asteroid Ryugu. Image Credit: DLR A small European spacecraft, known as the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT), landed successfully …

[ad_1] Another photo was taken during the landing of MASCOT on Ryugu. Credit: DLR / CNES Earlier this week, a spacecraft landed a small lander on a diamond-shaped space rock far and …

[ad_1] A Franco-German observation device has landed safely on an asteroid after the publication of a Japanese spacecraft as part of a search effort likely to provide clues about the fact. origin …

[ad_1] The Japanese space agency JAXA made history on September 21st by bringing two rovers on a 1 km asteroid. This asteroid, called Ryugu, houses two creatively named rovers, the Rovers 1A …

[ad_1] Artist illustration depicting the bouncing lander of the Franco-German MASCOT lander on the big asteroid Ryugu. MASCOT worked successfully for 17 hours on the surface of Ryugu, an hour longer than …

[ad_1] Ryugu, more than 180 million miles from Earth, and a 16-hour survey of its rocky surroundings. The foot-wide, German-built lander is called MASCOT, which stands for Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout. It …

[ad_1] Yesterday, a German-French probe called MASCOT began collecting valuable data from the surface of Ryugu, an asteroid located 300 million km from Earth. But it had to get cracking — the …

[ad_1] Portrait of the MASCOT rover, carrying a suite of scientific instruments, after today's landing on Ryugu JAXA By Dennis NormileOctober 3, 2018 at 9:35 am After successfully dropping two small rovers …

[ad_1] This site may generate affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has talked a lot about the purpose of the Hayabusa2 …

[ad_1] A smiling skull-shaped asteroid springs to our planet from the darkness of space – but it will miss Halloween. On the benefits side, it's not going to affect our planet and …