Thursday, July 2, 2020

Suitcase-sized asteroid explorer

Paris (ESA) Jul 02, 2020
A view of ESA's smallest future asteroid mission mapping its target body by laser. The suitcase-sized ESA's 'Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer', or M-Argo will use a multispectral camera and a laser altimeter to look for asteroid resources such as hydrated minerals that could be extracted in future. Other miniaturised payloads are also being considered. Planned for la

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