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Title: Japan lands robot on asteroid
Post by: space otter on September 25, 2018, 03:12:10 AM


https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/history-made-japan-lands-robot-on-asteroid/vi-AAAABzU


History made: Japan lands robot on asteroid
Duration: 00:42 9 hrs ago
A Japanese space agency's spacecraft launched two rovers that took photos from an asteroid 170 million miles away from earth.

42 sec of photos at link
Title: Re: Japan lands robot on asteroid
Post by: Pimander on October 28, 2018, 08:46:44 PM
If they are going to land on something, why not something exciting like Ceres?
Title: Re: Japan lands robot on asteroid
Post by: The Seeker on October 29, 2018, 01:16:38 AM
Quote from: Pimander on October 28, 2018, 08:46:44 PM
If they are going to land on something, why not something exciting like Ceres?
Perhaps that asteroid has something very interesting in its composition, say several tons of gold?
Or the puppetmasters said no to landing anywhere else...