Historical: Japan lowers spacecraft in asteroid
(7 years ago)A Japanese spacecraft has successfully landed in the remote asteroid, where it hopes to collect monsters that can shed light on the evolution of the solar system. Scientists at Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency. [ JAXA] watching the exit from the rooms on the island of Tanegashim applauded and made the letter “V” [...]
A Japanese spacecraft has successfully landed in the remote asteroid, where it hopes to collect monsters that can shed light on the evolution of the solar system.
Scientists at Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency. [ JAXA, which was looking at the landing from the control rooms on the island of Tanegashim, applauded and made the letter “V” for RECIE or in Albanian victory after Hayabusa 2 managed to reach the asteroid's surface.
The resolution proved successful,” said Jaxa spokesman Takayuki Tomob.
The agency further said that everything has gone smoothly to Ryuung asteroid, some 300 million miles [300 million km] from the earth.
The mission hopes to keep materials from within the asteroid's surface to understand how the solar system evolved since its birth 4.6 billion years ago. The agency has said this is the first time a probe would receive an atom from below the asteroid's surface.
Jaxa has said that these particles can contain organic material and water. /Periscope