The primary mission of the craft was to collect samples that would be returned to Earth for researchers to analyze, making it the first sample-return mission from a carbonaceous asteroid.
The colouration of dust grains as disturbed by the landing hints at periods of rapid heating by the Sun in the process of an orbital sweep brought the asteroid closer to our star. Ryugu orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.96–1.41 au once every 16 months (474 days; semi-major axis of 1.19 au).
The landing is set for Dec. 6, 2020. … The sample-return capsule from Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft returns to Earth carrying pieces of asteroid Ryugu in this artist's illustration. Ryugu is a dark, spinning top-shaped asteroid that measures about 3,000 feet wide.
Blue red asteroid However, the images that the camera took at the time of the first approach to the surface, made Japanese planetologists doubt it. It has a minimum orbital intersection distance with Earth of 95,400 km (0.000638 au), equivalent to 0.23 lunar distances. “We are sure that Hayabusa2 successfully conducted the sample collection from the observation showing a large number of fine grains lifted in the touchdown operation.” Even as researchers have to wait for the return of Hayabusa2 and samples, Morota and team can already state much about Ryugu from characteristics of dust as disturbed by the craft’s touchdown.The observations of asteroid Ryugu was done before the landing of Hayabusa2. The researchers also aimed at learning the effects of artificial impacts on the asteroid’s surface. Some of the rocks contain small, colored materials called inclusions that could contain minerals like olivine. These observations were confirmed upon the touchdown of the probe.
In April it blasted a small crater on the surface of the rock using a device The lander took this image after making first contact on the asteroid.Hayabusa2 will depart Ryugu in December 2019 and return to Earth by the end of 2020 with its precious cargo of samples to be analyzed by scientists.If it makes it back to Earth on schedule it will be the first mission to bring back samples from a C-class asteroid, which hasn't been visited before. They would help the astronomers and researchers get a better idea about the age and geographical history of the asteroid and planets. Image of Hayabusa-2 probe at the first approach to the surface of the Ryugu asteroid Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft captured pictures of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in stunning detail after touching down on its surface, a new study has revealed. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. ‘The red, dark fine grains were produced by solar heating, suggesting that Ryugu underwent an orbital excursion near the Sun.’Morota further explains that the variation in color of the asteroid is the result of some undergoing heating of the grains, while others did not. ‘On the other hand, asteroids represent ancient material, surviving from the early solar system.’ The researcher and his team will also study Ryugu’s craters, craters that are formed from multiple impacts with other asteroids. Because of this, they believe that some kind of unseen mechanism is removing the dust from the asteroid.
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