How Japan’s hopping rover nailed the first ever asteroid landing

The Japanese space agency made history earlier this week when they landed a rover on an asteroid for the first time ever. Two rovers separated from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft and landed on the surface of Ryugu, a 400 metre (1,300 feet) wide asteroid 300 million kilometres (180 million miles) from Earth.

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