MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop

hayabusa2.jaxa.jp

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I'm surprised I haven't heard hype about this until I opened hacker news and learned about the historical feat after the fact. I guess even with all the globalization and such we in the West don't learn about space endeavors unless it's NASA or the ESA.

I don't follow space news closely but I was well aware of this one. Japan has made a few widely spread headlines regarding its work with this asteroid.

Wikipedia is also a great way to keep up to date with these big space projects:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Timeline_of_Solar_System_explora...

NASA's Insight rover is landing on Mars on Nov 26 2018 https://www.wikiwand.com/en/InSight

OSIRIS-REx will reach a different asteroid in December 2018: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/OSIRIS-REx

My twitter was almost spammed with it.

Site doesn't load for me, hugged to death?

Anyone got a cache they can share? maybe throw the images up on imgur?

Edit:

Google cache link

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Space.com article containing what appears to be at least some of the rover photos:

https://www.space.com/41912-japanese-hopping-rovers-land-on-...

It's a triumph for Japanese and the rest of the world! Eagerly awaiting for more photos and results of the science experiments.

Congrats Japan! The images look a bit like "2001: a Space Odyssey"

That mid-hop picture looks so cool!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Bennu

For those interested, this is the asteroid.

No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu

Well, shit. My bad.

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