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Japan's Hopping Rovers Capture Amazing Views of Asteroid Ryugu
Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward
at 2018-09-29 13:31:51
from the asteroids do not concern me dept.
Two tiny, hopping rovers that landed on asteroid Ryugu last week have beamed back some incredible new views of the asteroid's rocky surface. [space.com]
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 [space.com] sample-return mission dropped the two nearly identical rovers, named Minerva-II1A and Minerva-II1B, onto the surface of Ryugu on Sept. 21. In a new video [youtu.be] from the eyes of Minerva-II1B, you can watch the sun move across the sky as its glaring sunlight reflects off the shiny rocks that cover Ryugu's surface.
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