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No it's not the beginning of asteroid mining. What in the world gave you that impression? There have been several other sample return missions in the past, this
by computerex 8y ago
No it's not the beginning of asteroid mining. What in the world gave you that impression? There have been several other sample return missions in the past, this isn't the first one.
- dmos62 8y ago> MINERVA-II1 is the world’s first rover (mobile exploration robot) to land on the surface of an asteroid. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180922e/ http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180922e/ If the other missions took samples and returned without a rover, I wonder how.
- computerex 8y agoInstead of wondering you can look it up on the internet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission
- Ftuuky 8y agoApologies, I thought past missions were sent to comets not asteroids but you are correct, the original Hayabusa mission tried to return a sample from an asteroid but incinerated on the reentry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
- auslander 8y agoNot incinerated, why would you say that. From your link: "..tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth"