Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft landed on an asteroid in February, and a dramatic new video shows the probe as it touches down tentatively on the distant space rock. - NBCNewsMACH
in February, and a dramatic new video shows the probe as it touches down tentatively on the distant space rock.Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Tuesday in a tweetThe point-of-view footage, taken by a small onboard camera and released on Monday, shows Hayabuasa 2’s distinctive shadow moving across the rocky face of the asteroid Ryugu as the probe makes its slow descent. To make the action easier to watch, JAXA sped up the the video by a factor of five.reached the 0.
Ryugu is thought to be a remnant from the early days of the solar system. Scientists are eager to study its composition because they think it— and perhaps how life arose on Earth. Hayabusa 2, which launched in December 2014, will remain at Ryugu at least until November. The probe is now shadowing the asteroid from a distance of about 12 miles, but plans call for it to land again in April. At that point the probe willHayabusa 2 isn’t the only mission now underway to explore an asteroid:
since late December 2018. That mission is expected to collect samples and return them to Earth in 2023.
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