Robots in outer space
Chapter 1
Wheels on red dust
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Chapter 2
Voyagers into the deep dark
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Chapter 3
Asteroid hunters and sample snatchers
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Chapter 4
The future of robotic minds
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Robots in outer space
Ch 3 · Asteroid hunters and sample snatchers
Fun Fact
Hopping on asteroids: Because asteroid Ryugu has almost no gravity, the MINERVA-II rovers didn't use wheels; they hopped using internal swinging weights.
Glossary
asteroid (noun)
A small rocky body that orbits the sun. In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe successfully returned a sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth.
A small rocky body that orbits the sun. In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe successfully returned a sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth.
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How much lunar soil did China's Chang'e 5 mission successfully return to Earth in 2020?
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What did the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft use to blow dust and pebbles into its collector head during its brief contact with Bennu?
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Which country's space agency created a crater on asteroid Ryugu by shooting it with a copper explosive?
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How did the tiny MINERVA-II rovers move across the surface of asteroid Ryugu in 2018?
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Where did the capsule containing samples of asteroid Bennu land when it returned to Earth in 2023?
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What is the name of the metal-rich asteroid that NASA sent a probe to explore in late 2023?