Japan Space Agency Sends Impactor to Blast Asteroid

  • A Japanese probe on April 5th, launched an explosive device at an asteroid, aiming to blast a crater in the surface and scoop up material that could shed light on how the solar system evolved. The explosive mission is the riskiest yet attempted by the Japanese space agency’s Hayabusa2 probe that aims to reveal more about the origins of life on Earth.

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  • Hayabusa2 released the so-called “small carry-on impactor”, a cone-shaped device capped with a copper bottom, as scheduled, as the probe hovered just 500 metres (1,650 feet) above the asteroid Ryugu.
  • NASA’s Deep Impact project succeeded in creating ....
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