Thursday, July 29, 2010

Asteroid stuff

There was a discussion on one of my podcasts about the Japanese space probe that was supposed to bring back asteroid dust. Apparantly, they had lots of mechanical/electrical problems in the 7year long voyage, but managed to fix them all.
It was supposed to "shoot" at the asteroid and then collect the dust, but instead it landed on the asteroid...twice...and hopefully got enough dust collected to let scientists investigate what they are made of.





And now the probe has landed.

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