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Quote by: 5010  Very cool. I hope they someday send a probe that can land on asteroids, rove around, dig and scrape samples, etc like the mars rovers. Then jump like a grasshopper away and turn on the ion drive to visit the next one.
I wonder why they don't do that now. Maybe they don't want to disturb the pristine surface just yet. |
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The Japanese are half a step ahead of us. I say half a step because a computer glitch and a fuel leak nearly killed their asteroid-sampling probe, and its not clear if it scooped up anything or not. We'll find out when it gets back in 2010.