Ryugu articles
Deeper dives into Ryugu, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
Hayabusa2's touchdowns and the first artificial crater on an asteroid
How a Japanese spacecraft landed twice on a boulder-strewn rubble pile, blasted a crater with a copper projectile, and brought home 5.4 grams.
Read →What the Ryugu samples revealed: water, amino acids and the building blocks of RNA
From hydrated minerals to all five nucleobases — the key findings from Ryugu's pristine grains.
Read →The rovers that hopped across Ryugu
HIBOU, OWL and MASCOT: how tiny robots explored an asteroid where gravity is too weak for wheels.
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