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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] 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] The Franco – German LG for Asteroid – Scanning Mobile Phone (MASCOT) captured this photo of the Ryugu asteroid during the landing operations of Oct. 3, 2018. The Shadow from the …

[ad_1] The Japanese space shuttle Hayabusa2 successfully dropped the MASCOT lander on the Ryugu asteroid on October 3, 2018 (Japan time). Left: Illustration of the MASCOT undercarriage separating from the mother ship …

[ad_1] This image of the Ryugu asteroid was captured by the Japanese tanker Hayabusa2 at an altitude of about 210 feet (64 meters) on September 21, 2018, just before the craft deploys …