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The level of engineering behind this is such an amazing feat.

Landing a satellite on an asteroid, and then shooting it with rare minerals to cause debris to shoot off, to then be collected and later analysed by scientists here on Earth? All while in flight? And there's enough fuel to give this another crack on a _second_ asteroid?

I remember buying dinosaur and space magazines that often had collectable assets (like, each magazine collection would build an entire glow in the dark T Rex skeleton or similar, each magazine came with one bone and you had to get 20+ magazines for the entire 1:200 scale skeleton... we'd probably call this DLC now) and being absolutely amazed at what was written within.

This article brings about the exact same glee and nostalgia.

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Yeah, this is the kind of mind-blowing, mesmerizing stuff that dreams are made of. Or rather, that makes people have dreams, much like the moon landing.

Being able to see the shadow of the Hayabusa2 coming closer to the surface, the dust when it fired, then moving away, is just simply.... Would be really awesome if there was a video version with interpolated frames so we'd get a smooth video. I know someone did that of one of the moon landings (the one with the sky crane iirc) and the result was simply stunning.

> This article brings about the exact same glee and nostalgia.

Phil Plait is one of my favourite science writers, and has been consistently putting out great "bad astronomy" blog posts for years (decades?). If you want more of his writing you can check out the website: http://www.badastronomy.com/index.html

Thanks for the recommendation. After spending some minutes browsing the content, I was delighted.

Syfy has hit that mark with the articles I’ve read on it recently too.

Now if only they could have someone proof read prior to publishing...

Now only if they could keep the shows that are actually worth watching.

eye balls The Expanse

Season 4 is on the way!

Now backed by Amazon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbis_Publishing

funny, I thought "yep, I remember the De Agostini collectible stuff in Italy, I wonder if this Orbis thing is the same". And apparently Orbis publishing is now a subsidiary of De Agostini.

It was DeAgostini in Poland as well. As a kid, I had a few T-rex bones from that myself.

And it seems so effortless! Like, “duh, of course we landed a satellite on an asteroid and blew off bits of minerals for later analysis. What, like it’s hard?” Obviously it’s incredibly difficult, but the point is that we did it. I like to think the very first humans who peered up at the heavens with rudimentary telescopes would be incredibly proud. They should be.

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