See Real-Time Photos of Asteroid Ryugu Ahead of Landing Attempt Tonight!

See Real-Time Photos of Asteroid Ryugu Ahead of Landing Attempt Tonight!

See Real-Time Photos of Asteroid Ryugu Ahead of Landing Attempt Tonight!





See Real-Time Photos of Asteroid Ryugu Ahead of Landing Attempt Tonight!




Just two weeks after two small hoppers made a Perfect landing on the Ryugu asteroidThat space rock is about to get another robotic visitor, and we're about to get another group of incredible pictures.



	

	That's thanks to the Japanese spacecraft. Hayabusa2, which reached the asteroid earlier this summer and last month dropped two small rovers onto the surface of the space rock. Tonight (October 2, EDT), Hayabusa2 will launch its next probe, The German-French joint lander called MASCOT  (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout). As that happens, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is broadcasting almost in real time. Photographs of the asteroid Ryugu here. As seen by the Hayabysa2 spacecraft.





						


Artistic representation of the MASCOT lander that reaches the surface of Ryugu.

            						    Credit: DLR 


		The images come from Hayabusa's navigation camera2 as the ship descends from its usual altitude of 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) above Ryugu's surface to only 200 feet (60 meters) during the deployment of the lander. That means the camera can take some impressive images of Ryugu. surface covered with debris. JAXA published similar near-real-time views of the asteroid when Hayabusa2 deployed its first two landers, MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B, last month.



Here is an early look at @ haya2e_jaxa approach to the asteroid #Ryugu for tonight @ MASCOT2018 landing! https://t.co/tZBrUOGY5B @DLR_en @CNES @JAXA_en @SPACEdotcom pic.twitter.com/Wmf0wRn24H

- Tariq J. Malik (@tariqjmalik) October 2, 2018



	The MASCOT lander, which is approximately 1 foot (30 centimeters) square and 8 inches (20 cm) in height will probably bounce off after it falls on Ryugu's surface, before establishing its orientation.

		The lander is equipped with a motorized arm that can flip the ship to make sure its antenna points up and its instruments down. Once upright, MASCOT will go to work, using a specialized microscope to study what Ryugu is made of. Other instruments will also collect temperature and magnetic field data, and a camera connected to the side of the lander will take photographs of the asteroid.

		But MASCOT does not have a long battery life: it only has 16 hours to collect all the data it can, in the course of two days in Ryugu. Then, everything depends on the Hayabusa2 itself for a while, although the spacecraft carries a smaller hopper to deploy next year.



	Email Meghan Bartels in mbartels@space.com or follow it @meghanbartels. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook Y Google+. Original article about Space.com.



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