Article "Watch the moment Hayabusa2 grabbed rock samples from asteroid Ryuga"
History in the making.
by Mark Serrels
July 28, 2019
Hayabusa2’s second touchdown on asteroid Ryugu
Published on Jul 26, 2019
JAXA’s Asteroid Explorer “Hayabusa2” performed a second touchdown to collect a sample from asteroid Ryugu on 11 July 2019. The video was created from images captured with Hayabusa2’s CAM-H at intervals between 0.5s and 5s and played back at 10x speed.
The first image was taken at an altitude of about 8.5m and the last is from an altitude of about 150m.
Hayabusa2: Sayonara Ryugu!
Nov 21, 2019
JAXA’s Asteroid Explorer “Hayabusa2” departed the orbit of asteroid Ryugu on 13 November 2019. The video was created from images captured with Hayabusa2’s navigation camera. Hayabusa2 is scheduled to return samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth at the end of 2020.
Hayabusa2 capsule returns to Earth
Dec 5, 2020
JAXA’s Asteroid Explorer “Hayabusa2” capsule re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and successfully landed in Australia on 5 December 2020. The samples collected from asteroid Ryugu have been recovered by JAXA.
Article "A capsule carrying asteroid rocks has successfully landed on Earth"
They should teach us about how the solar system formed.
by Charlotte Jee
December 7, 2020
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