#ryugu

[spaceexp]

Surface of Asteroid Ryugu taken at night by Hayabusa-2. Stars are visible in the background.

[photos-of-space]

surface of asteroid Ryugu at night

[unbfacts]

Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission collected samples from asteroid Ryugu in 2019 and brought them back to Earth in 2020. Scientists later found all five chemical bases used in DNA and RNA inside them. That does not prove life existed on the asteroid, but it does support the idea that space rocks may have brought some of life’s basic ingredients to early Earth.

[darkenergyslivers]

Surface of Asteroid RYUGU taken at night by Hayabusa-2. Stars are visible in the background. [via u/marktwin11 at r/spaceporn]

[whirligig-girl]

a Starfleet ship with a Vulcan-style warp ring. I don't know much about her, but I figure she has a chief engineer who had previously served in the Vulcan fleet, since Starfleet engineers with experience with warp rings are probably hard to come by.

[mindblowingscience]

Asteroid Ryugu samples suggest presence of salty water in outer solar system

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proxim

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the universe. Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our solar system. A team of researchers at Kyoto University have found evidence of salt minerals in samples recovered from Ryugu during the initial phase of Japan's Hayabusa2 mission. The discovery of these deposits, containing sodium carbonate, halite, and sodium sulfates, suggest that liquid saline water once existed within a parent body of Ryugu.

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[malinkymax]

The surface of the asteroid Ryugu, as captured by the Japanese’s spacecraft Hayabusa2 (2018).

[bolaneno]

Life’s genetic code just discovered in asteroid samples

asteroid Ryugu