History made as Japan lands rovers on an asteroid
Image Credit: JAXA
Japanese Space Agency JAXA has successfully landed two rovers on the surface of an asteroid, making Japan the first country to do so. JAXA's asteroid exploring spacecraft Hayabusa-2 carried a compact rover Minerva-II1, which separated into two cookie-tin shaped rovers, Rover-1A and Rover-1B that landed on a diamond-shaped asteroid 162173 Ryugu to observe and study its surface and explore movement on an asteroid.