The Best-Ever Photos of an Asteroid’s Rugged Terrain
A Japanese mission has captured mesmerizing views of a distant space rock.
by Marina Koren
Sep 25, 2018
2 minutes
Over the weekend, a pair of robots, each about the size of a frying pan, tumbled out of a spacecraft and landed on the surface of another world.
The robots are part of a Japanese mission to visit an asteroid, collect some of its rocky material, and then return it to Earth. In late 2014, Japan launched the Hayabusa2 spacecraft bound for Ryugu,
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