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Astro Bob blog: Hopping Robots Free Fall to the Surface of Asteroid Ryugu

Two little robots bristling with sensors and cameras departed the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 at 11:06 p.m. yesterday free falling to the surface of Ryugu, a barren, rocky asteroid 0.6 miles across some 200 million miles from Earth. Read post ...

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Two little robots bristling with sensors and cameras departed the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 at 11:06 p.m. yesterday free falling to the surface of Ryugu, a barren, rocky asteroid 0.6 miles across some 200 million miles from Earth. Read post here

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