© JAXA space agencyA glimpse of the surface of Ryugu
Rovers Minerva-II1A and II1-B were released from the Hayabusa 2 'mothership' after a three-and-a-half-year journey and began hopping their way across the Ryugu asteroid's craggy surface on Friday, September 21. Having sent back multiple still images via their wide-angle and stereo cameras, Minerva-II1B has now sent back the first video of the mission.
"Please take a moment to enjoy 'standing' on this new world," JAXA (Japan's space agency) officials said in a statement. The 15-frame video was shot over the course of 1 hour and 14 minutes on September 23.
© JAXAAn image captured immediately before Rover-1B top a hop on September 23, 2018
In October, the Mothership Hayabusa 2 will drop a lander known as MASCOT followed by another 'hopper' rover, Minerva-II2, in 2019. MASCOT was developed jointly by the German Aerospace Center and the French space agency CNES.
Eventually, Hayabusa 2 will itself descend to the asteroid's surface to collect samples which it's aiming to return to Earth some time in 2020.
© JAXAFigure 5. September 23, 2018 at 09:48 JST: surface image taken from Rover-1A. MINERVA-II1 successfully captured the shadow of its own antenna and pin.
Reader Comments
If there are no satellites, why do we point our satellite dishes to the sky?
How are we able to look for satellite trajectories online and then see them moving across the sky exactly as predicted?
Why does the angle of polaris correspond directly to the latitude of the observer, in other words, why is its angle in the sky the same as the latitude of the observer?
Why can't Aussies see polaris or Americans the southern cross?
How does night and day work?
How do seasons work?
What are the stars and why do planets appear differently?
Why are the Moon, Sun, and all the other planets round?
I can go on for days with this. Answer at least 3.
You are just trying to avoid being exposed as a know-nothing. If you do not answer, you concede and should stop. How does this not get into your thick head? You are making extraordinary claims and then refusing to back them up by anything. I'll be posting these questions to everything you say now, to make sure everyone sees what sort of ignoramus you are. Pathetic troll.
Is "little flatter" his/her new nickname?
...sounds like training bra size!
Are you insinuating he/her is somehow underdeveloped?
with the constant references to "mothering" "i'm not your mother" -i would deduce that "little flatter" is a girl. -or-
A cross-dressing guy like "Buffalo Bill" on "Silence of the Lambs"?!?
"It puts the lotion on it's skin, or else it gets the hose" OMG! He/She is going to make a flatearth global map out of human skin!!! [Link]
...To be fair, HashAttack2 covered the night, and day thing.
I have not been keeping up with these arguments. but it does seem a little foolish to be discussing why we have night and day or seasons.
the real question is, what is hurling the earth around the sun? if the sun is made up of plasma (as we now believe) then plasma can create both gravity and a magnetic field.
I just happen to be aware that an ordinary flame is a form of plasma. I know this as a result of the line of work that I am in.
Yeah, you heating and air guys don't get enough credit for what work you do, and the math, science that goes into it. I was a roofing contractor for many yrs., and worked around a few in new constr.
I am asking him to explain how then does the world work. How do we get night and day on this FE of his. He refuses to even send me a link, cause he doesn't want to "mother" me.
Riddle me this: If you are on a train going south at 60mph, and you decide to walk to the front, the same direction the train is headed, are you now briefly moving faster than the train?
He's like, " WTF? What does night, and day, or seasons have to do with the price of tea in China!?"
I'm pretty sure HVACTech is under the impression you guys are commenting strictly on this updated story, and may not be aware this argument has a past history at this address.
Japan's 'hopping rovers' land successfully, send first images of Ryugu asteroid
A pair of tiny JAXA robots, released by the Hayabusa2 probe, have successfully landed on the Ryugu asteroid and began transmitting images from the surface of the "potentially hazardous" object..."I got lots of holes for ya hahahaha ..."
You're not putting me down in a flatearth hole, and harvesting my skin to make a global flatearth map that looks like the U.N. symbol!
Full theory explained here: [Link]
You criticize others for expressing their ideas while offering no alternative but, "yeah right, that's bullshit, hahaha".
Rince... you re water-level is shallow, sneeky talk behind a lady's back. R.C. would teach you a thing or 2 about Gentleman Etiquette AND i do have a swift mean side quick Trumanshow
LMAO
Fun thread to read
What about my "lieing" instead of the proper "lying"? ( surprised no one noticed)
The first problem with this is that there is no official explanation of the the alleged orbit of the Earth around the Sun - Those circular patterns that they indoctrinate you with when you are very young and vulnerable are totally false
How can one object (A) rotate around another object (B) , that is moving, without the object A have to vary its orbit speed ... maybe the planets trail behind the Sun in a a spiral ... but that is not what we are told
You also have a secondary problem that the model of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe is based on gravity
Gravity has been used to determine the size, distance and mass of all objects
If you introduce plasma as a secondary force then the whole gravity based heliocentric model collapses ... all the sizes, masses and distances change
If you are prepared to consider any part of the Electric universe then you have to accept all the lies that NASA has told you - they could not have visited all those planets, taking all the CGI images, if they were not where gravity dictates they are
Come-on Rince, if your globe argument is so strong then it doesn't need hyperbole to enhance it
Organisations like NASA operate in a very compartmentalized fashion - many teams and sub-contractors will have no idea what really happens with what they do
No-one has ever had eyes on of Hubble - its an electronic blip on a monitor - it may have been built and cost $1.5 bilion, or they could just be using Sophia and the money went to other purposes
$50 million a day can buy a lot of silence
The physical laws that we turned into formulas work perfectly on earth and inside the solar system, they work less perfectly as you scale up. Obviously some force that has a much smaller effect on the phenomenon of gravity on earth, has a significant influence on the large scale. That's why those bozo scientists invented dark matter. The electric model does not encroach on gravity. It provides an additional force to explain gravity, maybe it even turns out that gravity is somehow the result of exclusively electric causes. Besides, masses and distances for objects outside of the solar system are not even calculated using gravity.
What's your thoughts on ball lightning?
Please Trumanshow
Is Sphere Itself.
R.C.
i thought it had a good ring to it!
Cant wait for RC's reply
In the modern era, pseudoscientific flat Earth theories have been espoused by modern flat Earth societies and, increasingly, by unaffiliated individuals using social media.
....Is Aristotle rolling in his grave, or is he lieing flat?
That one deserves a haha tambien
want to get a good laugh? Check out where this conversation began. Japanese rovers feud pt.1
Japan's 'hopping rovers' land successfully, send first images of Ryugu asteroid
A pair of tiny JAXA robots, released by the Hayabusa2 probe, have successfully landed on the Ryugu asteroid and began transmitting images from the surface of the "potentially hazardous" object...You there state, "I'll be posting these questions to everything you say now..." I understand why one might wish, on the 'F.E.'issue'/ 'theory', to do so. I write to request that you savesuch for places where relevant on point - otherwise we've all see important matters hijacked in the comments, and every time in detriment to all.
Believe it or not, if or when you do, on any later article that has nada to do with the Earth's obloid spherical shape (per memory), that would be a form of 'switching the issue' via an 'ad hominem' attack. Please use it, as here, where relevant.
Look at Hitler during WWI. Although, a rather 'different' sort, was he a brave soldier? No doubt.
Look at
a) His doctrines on Armored warfare - still used to this day - e.g., they ironically helped Israel win the 'Six Day War.'
b) The rocket projects he backed that were so valuable that the US illegally, - (per borders of Yalta giveaway by Roosevelt to Stalin) - literally stole all the rocketry equipment plus the Nazi scientists from the pre-agreed Soviet Side, and gave them new I.D.s in Op. Paperclip.
Just because a person might be wrong on one issue; that doesn't mean they are wrong about everything.
Just a request; no reply necessary.
R.C.
a) There is a 100% standard Tesla car in space
b) Pluto really does have the image of Pluto the dog on it
c) There are mini robot hoppers bouncing on asteroids
Nord Stream pipeline - 1,222KM - A spherical Earth would mean a "bulge" of 30KM at the midway point
How do you lay a pipe under a 30KM bulge and not know about it?
It measures approximately 1 kilometer (0.6 mi) in diameter
Data from a number of observatories, and suggested that the asteroid was "almost spherical" (unlike the actual reality - it's diamond shape)
How does it avoid hopping of the edge ... god old gravity of course ...
The acceleration due to gravity at the equator has been evaluated at about 0.11 mm/s2, or about 0.0001 m/sec2 - It rises to 1.5 mm/sec2 at the poles
With gravity being 10 times stronger at the poles than the equator, then presumably the hopper is expected to end up hopping up and down on the pole?
I am assuming the hop is based on a straight vertical hop
L ets say it starts in the middle - 500M from any edge and hops 15M into the air (about 3% of the width)
It takes 15 minutes for "grqavity" to pull it back down to the surface.
The gravity at the mid point is 10% the gravity at the pole
The direction of pull would be angular, causing the drift to be towards one pole or the other
On the next jump the same process occurs again, but this time the drift will be biased towards the pole that the object is nearest
Repeat enough times and it will end up at the pole, and from there it would no longer have a reason to deviate from straight up and down
You in zee house?
Some people compensate for this by extrapolating on what is seen based on the understanding that what isn't seen may very well still exist.
Some people don't.
And those that don't may be unable to do otherwise.