I'm an asteroid lander. On 3 October 2018 I was released from @haya2kun and landed on Ryugu. #AsteroidLanding
Asteroid Ryugu
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.@haya2e_jaxa I forgot to give you this before you left ✉️ ...
#SAYONARA_Ryugu
Hello earthlings, look what I discovered while exploring asteroid #Ryugu! dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault… Thanks @haya2e_jaxa and my @JAXA_jp friends for the perfect #AsteroidLanding! #hayabusa2
Hey @haya2kun! Did I hear right? Are you coming back down to Ryugu? Where will you touch down? 🤔 #asteroidlanding #hayabusa2
Image credit: @JAXA_en
Congratulations @OSIRISREx ! Glad to hear you made it to Bennu. It looks like an amazing place. Can’t wait to see what you discover. #WelcometoBennu #spacebuddies
#WelcomeToBennu! After two years of travel – and more than a decade of planning and work by my team – I’m here. But Arrival is just the beginning… bit.ly/BennuRotate
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
Godspeed @NASAInsight! And please take care of @DLR_de '#Marsmaulwurf' - HP3 - the Mole.
#MarsLanding
And I hit the bull's eye! My descent to Ryugu was rather straight, don't you think? I made it to my planned landing site 'Alice's Wonderland'. Not too bad for a rookie! 😁😁😁 #asteroidlanding
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What!? No regolith on Ryugu's surface? That's definitely not what I was expecting... it's a wonderland full of surprises… #AsteroidLanding
Ever seen an asteroid's south pole? Ryugu's is spectacular. Check out that huge block... it's name is 'South Polar Rock' and from what I see it could be up to 100 metres tall! #AsteroidLanding
Boulders, boulders and more boulders! Ryugu's surface is strewn with them... and some are huge! Can you see the one on the right? It is tens of metres long #AsteroidLanding
So glad to finally be home, at asteroid #Ryugu! Here’s another picture that I took while I was landing - between 10 and 20 metres from the surface! What a place! It’s out of this world, don’t you think? #AsteroidLanding #hayabusa2
Check this out! I took this picture when I was almost on #Ryugu's surface. Look at how sunlight is reflected off me. What a dark surface!
Credit: MASCOT/@DLR_en /@JAXA_en #AsteroidLanding
In case you were wondering... this is what was happening on Earth while I was #asteroidlanding and exploring!
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And during this extra time, I also made another hop and explored part of a third asteroid day! But the best thing is: I sent ALL the data I collected to @haya2kun! Now team, it's up to YOU to understand Ryugu. #AsteroidLanding
All done with work! Oh my... can that be right? I explored Ryugu for more than 17 hours. That is more than my team expected. Do I get paid overtime for this? #asteroidlanding
I’ve taken measurements with all my experiments, and my battery is holding up! Still going strong! #AsteroidLanding
I’ve been on asteroid Ryugu for a little over 12 hours conducting experiments non-stop! Now I’m working with MicrOmega and MARA! #AsteroidLanding
Wow! Ryugu is so dark that I had trouble orienting myself. I had to use my swing arm to relocate so I could continue collecting scientific data... Much better now! #AsteroidLanding
Hello #Earth, hello @haya2kun! I promised to send you some pictures of #Ryugu so here’s a shot I took during my descent. Can you spot my shadow? #AsteroidLanding
地球上のどことも違うその場所で、ぼくは目覚めた。まわりの全てが、驚きと未知と、危険な香りに満ちている。やった、リュウグウに着いたんだ！#Asteroidlanding
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