Feast your eyes on the Earth-like, rocky debris covering the surface of asteroid Ryugu
Japan's space agency JAXA has had a busy year, but that's par for the course when you're controlling an asteroid probe orbiting a distant space rock. the Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been hanging out around the asteroid known as Ryugu for a little over a year now, and it's made some big moves along the way. The spacecraft has already collected samples of asteroid material that it will eventually bring back to Earth, but there's still plenty scientists can learn about the makeup of the asteroid even without going hands-on. Читать дальше...