Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission lands on the surface of a distant asteroid

The coolest mission you haven't known about simply hit a noteworthy point of reference: the Japanese Hayabusa 2 test has achieved its goal, the space rock Ryugu, and just sent a couple of landers to its surface. Before long it will contact down itself and take an example of Ryugu back to Earth! Is it true that you are messing with me? That is astonishing!

Hayabusa 2 is, as you may figure, a continuation of the first Hayabusa, which like this one was a space rock examining mission. So this entire procedure isn't unprecedented, however some of you might be astounded that space rock mining is basically old cap now.

In any case, as you may likewise figure, the second mission is further developed than the first. Encouraged by and having gained much from the main mission, Hayabusa 2 packs greater hardware and plans an any longer remain at its goal.

That goal is a space rock in a circle between the Earth and Mars named Ryugu. Ryugu is assigned "Sort C," which means it is thought to have extensive measures of water and natural materials, making it an energizing focus for finding out about the potential outcomes of extraterrestrial life and the historical backdrop of this (and maybe other) heavenly bodies.

It propelled in late 2014 and put in the following quite a long while in a cautious methodology that would place it in a steady circle over the space rock; it at long last arrived this mid year. What's more, this week it slid to inside 55 meters (!) of the surface and dropped off two of four landers it brought with. This is what it looked like as it plunged towards the space rock: