I thought Rosetta was successful, somewhat?
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jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week agoNot to mention we have tried to land on asteroids a couple times now, but failed. Best we coukd do was smash against them to analize the dust.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 week ago
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I mean, kinda. It didn’t land, it tumbled on the asteroid and got itself stuck on a dark pit.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 week ago
The OSIRIS-REx did manage to bring back some material from Bennu. We retrieved 121.6 grams and it cost around a $100 million. It took 8 years.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Yes, but it still didn’t land. It very slowly approached then bounced while collecting the dust. This is probably the closest we have so far of landing.