Saturday, November 26, 2005
A PIECE OF THE SKY
The Japanese Hayabusa probe is reported to have successfully touched down on the half-mile-long asteroid Itokawa and collected a sample for eventual return to Earth. In the long run, asteroids like this are the best place to collect useable resources in the solar system, since getting and moving such resources requires less energy than for material found on large bodies like the moon or Mars. So, even though this is an almost infinitesimally small step, it's an important milestone.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:21 AM
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