{"id":18122,"date":"2019-03-05T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/watch-japans-hayabusa-2-probe-blast-away-a-blizzard-of-rocks-from-an-asteroid\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T21:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:52:21","slug":"watch-japans-hayabusa-2-probe-blast-away-a-blizzard-of-rocks-from-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/watch-japans-hayabusa-2-probe-blast-away-a-blizzard-of-rocks-from-an-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Japan\u2019s Hayabusa 2 probe blast away a blizzard of rocks from an asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"\u300c\u306f\u3084\u3076\u3055\uff12\u300d\u642d\u8f09\u5c0f\u578b\u30e2\u30cb\u30bf\u30ab\u30e1\u30e9\u64ae\u5f71\u6620\u50cf \/ Hayabusa2 Touch down movie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3hO58HFa1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.75\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"600\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 600px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If there was ever any doubt that Japan\u2019s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft was able to get access to samples from an asteroid called Ryugu last month, a video released today should put those doubts to rest.<\/p>\n<p>The black-and-white video clip, shot by the probe\u2019s CAM-H monitoring camera, shows the sampling horn being lowered to the sunlit surface. Hayabusa 2 creeps nearer and nearer to its shadow, and suddenly there\u2019s a spray of debris as the probe fires a bullet made of tantalum and backs away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRocks reaching sizes of several tens of centimeters in diameter were ejected,\u201d the Hayabusa 2 team said today in a science status report. \u201cMany chips of this released debris are flattened plate-shaped and appear to reach quite a high altitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayabusa 2\u2019s sampling horn is designed to capture some of that debris. \u201cThe potential for sample collection is high,\u201d the team reported.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the fine-grained debris even ended up sticking to the lens of a different camera that\u2019s used for optical navigation. An image captured by that camera was released soon after the Feb. 21 touchdown<\/p>\n<p>The probe is scheduled to descend toward the asteroid again this week and next week. The piece de resistance will come in early April, when Hayabusa 2 is due to shoot a 4.4-pound lump of copper at the asteroid (known as the Small Carry-on Impactor) to create an artificial crater and free up more samples.<\/p>\n<p>Ryugu is currently more than 200 million miles from Earth. Late this year, Hayabusa 2 will start the homeward journey, and it\u2019ll drop off a sample container with bits of Ryugu by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was ever any doubt that Japan\u2019s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft was able to get access to samples from an asteroid called Ryugu last month, a video released today should put those doubts to rest. The black-and-white video clip, shot by the probe\u2019s CAM-H monitoring camera, shows the sampling horn being lowered to the sunlit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4365,1519,1965,377,2168],"class_list":["post-18122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asteroid","tag-asteroids","tag-hayabusa-2","tag-japan","tag-ryugu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}