Space Weather News for Sept. 22, 2018
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ROBOTS LAND ON NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID:  Today, the Japanese space agency made history by landing a pair of robots on diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu. The tiny explorers are now hopping across the space rock's rugged surface and sending unprecedented pictures back to Earth. Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that can approach our planet closer than Moon, so exploring it is important. Learn more on today's edition of Spaceweather.com.

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Above: One of the newly-landed rovers took this picture in mid-hop as it was making a short jump across the asteroid's surface. Credit: JAXA
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