A Dynamo on Asteroid Vesta
By Annelies Rhemrev
A meteorite found in Antarctica holds evidence of a once-active dynamo on Vesta.
About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System was little more than a tenuous disk of gas and dust. In the span of merely 10 million years, this [...]
Searching for Water on Asteroid
By Annelies Rhemrev
When the Japanese Hayabusa-2 mission is launched towards asteroid 1999 JU 3 in 2014 to collect surface samples, MASCOT – the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout – an asteroid lander developed by the German Aerospace Center [...]