MASCOT on asteroid Ryugu – Linking remote sensing and returned sample analysis with a small lander
Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme Robert Hooke Str. 7, Bremen
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{:de}MASCOT is a 30 cm x 30 cm x 20 cm small lander that was deployed onto the surface of asteroid Ryugu in October 2018 by JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission. There, it operated for 17 hours and collected valuable data using its camera, radiometer and magnetometer. The presentation summarizes the findings of MASCOT on the surface ...