These Photos of Asteroid Ryugu from the Successful MASCOT Landing Are Amazing

These Photos of Asteroid Ryugu from the Successful MASCOT Landing Are Amazing

These Photos of Asteroid Ryugu from the Successful MASCOT Landing Are Amazing





These Photos of Asteroid Ryugu from the Successful MASCOT Landing Are Amazing






                    


Another photograph taken during the landing of MASCOT in Ryugu.

                    Credit: DLR / CNES




		Earlier this week, a spacecraft dropped a small lander on a diamond-shaped space rock far, far away, and before that robot. He finished a marathon of 17 hours of work session., sent back some incredible images of his descent.

		The landing module, called MASCOT, is part of an international mission to explore a primitive asteroid called Ryugu and is the third robot to venture on the surface of the asteroid. And, as expected, the view from a landing box the size of a shoebox falling on a space rock is pretty wild.



				Watch this! I took this photo when I was almost in #RyuguThe surface of Look how the sunlight reflects on me. What a dark surface!
Credit: MASCOT /@DLR_en /@JAXA_en #AsteroidLanding pic.twitter.com/fqM8Jr0WCm

		- MASCOT Lander (@ MASCOT2018) October 5, 2018

		In a tweet, the team behind the lander explained that the photograph includes a weak beam of light reflected in the MASCOT itself.

		MASCOT was a joint project of the German and French space agencies and was delivered to the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2, which also captured images of the landing. Joined in a GIF, they show how the lander enters the upper left corner of the frame and then catches the light in the final image.



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		- 小 惑星 探査 機 機 2 @ (@ haya2_jaxa) October 5, 2018

		MASCOT was designed to collect data for 16 hours, or approximately two of Ryugu's days. The scientists working on the mission were able to persuade an extra hour of robot work after realizing that their battery had enough energy to keep going.

		Before the power supply runs out, MASCOT transmitted all the data gathered by their four instruments back to Hayabusa's main ship2, so that the information can be sent home to Earth. Scientists hope the data will help them understand what Ryugu is made of and how the solar system was formed.



	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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