La sonda giapponese Hayabusa subisce danni dalla piu’ violenta tempesta solare da parecchi anni, ma viene riprogrammata per arrivare comunque all’asteroide Itokawa. Verra’ poi seguita dalla ancora piu’ ambiziosa Hayabusa-2, che avra’ un completo successo sull’asteroide Ryugu:
https://cronologia-universale.it/4-novembre-2003/
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Image credits: By JAXA – Fair use.
High resolution image of the surface of asteroid Itokawa photographed by Hayabusa. “D” is taken from an altitude of 63m. It is thought that the so-called “Muses Sea” (official name “MUSES-C Regio”) is covered with a “gravel” of granules with diameters from a few mm to few cm. (From Yano et al, Science Vol 312 2, June 2006)