How Do You Make a Crater on an Asteroid? A Japanese Spacecraft Will Try With a Bomb Tonight

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 18:50 in Astronomy & Space

The Hayabusa2 spacecraft will attempt to advance its study of the rock called Ryugu by making a hole on its surface with a copper projectile.

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