Japan's Hayabusa-2 asteroid probe snapped some gorgeous images of the surface of Ryugu. The photos show the color contrast of Ryugu's surface, with the redder areas getting their color to an intense run-in with the Sun at some point in the asteroid's past. Visit BGR's homepage for more stories. The Japanese space agency JAXA sent its Hayabusa-2 asteroid probe to the big, diamond-shaped near-earth asteroid known as Ryugu way back in 2014. The trip took four years, but it was well worth the wait. ...
Japan's Hayabusa-2 asteroid probe snapped some gorgeous images of the surface of Ryugu. The photos show the color contrast of Ryugu's surface, with the redder areas getting their color to an intense run-in with the Sun at some point in the asteroid's past. Visit BGR's homepage for more stories. The Japanese space agency JAXA sent its Hayabusa-2 asteroid probe to the big, diamond-shaped near-earth asteroid known as Ryugu way back in 2014. The trip took four years, but it was well worth the wait. ...
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