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Japan lands robot on asteroid─── 07:28 Sun, 23 Sep 2018
JAXA proudly tweeted pictures from the rovers (JAXA Twitter)
Japan's space agency (JAXA) has made history by successfully landing two robotic explorers on the surface of an asteroid.
BBC reports the two small "rovers", which were dispatched from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft on Friday, will move around the 1km-wide space rock known as Ryugu.
The asteroid's low gravity means they can hop across it, capturing temperatures and images of the surface.
Hayabusa-2 reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a three-and-a-half-year journey.
While the European Space Agency had previously managed to land on an icy comet, this is the first spacecraft to place robot rovers on the surface of an asteroid.
BBC
