The spacecraft that famously brought asteroid Ryugu samples to Earth in 2020 has flown right by another space rock.
    • m3t00🌎🇺🇦@midwest.socialOPMEnglish
      3·
      25 days ago

      On Sunday (July 5), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of asteroid Torifune

      same ship, new rock

      • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        25 days ago

        Interesting. It strongly reminds me of the other one. Do they always look like this?

        Edit: Well, not always. Sometimes they also look like squares. Seems like the lack of gravity gives them much more interesting shapes than boring old spherical planets: