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Fig. 3 | Earth, Planets and Space

Fig. 3

From: MASCOT’s in situ analysis of asteroid Ryugu in the context of regolith samples and remote sensing data returned by Hayabusa2

Fig. 3

Rock illuminated by MasCam’s red LED at night in relation to the returned sample. Sub-millimetre-sized bright spots are clearly visible in the front. The two circles illustrate the ~ 1.7 cm across opening of the sample holders with the returned samples. The largest returned fragment (C9000) with 1 cm in size is also shown for reference. Due to the distortion in the MasCam image, the dimensions of the samples and the MASCOT scene are only approximately to scale at the indicated location. Please note that the samples were not collected at this site and are shown here for reference only. The images of the samples were retrieved from (Astromaterials Science Research Group (ASRG) 2022)

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