Japanese robot rovers send stunning photos back180million miles from surface of asteroid

A pair of Japanese robots have captured stunning photographs of the surface of an asteroid as they landed on it. The cookie tin-shaped robots successfully reached the Ryugu asteroid yesterday, a day after they were released from the Hayabusa2 probe, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed. The stunning photos show the craggy surface of the asteroid and were beamed back 180 million miles to Earth by the probe. This stunning picture of the asteroid's surface was taken by one of the rovers as it jumped on it Rover-1B's took this shot of the asteroid's craggy surface following its three-and-half year journey The rovers are being used by Japan's space agency to search for clues of the origins of the solar system. The rover mission is the world's first moving, robotic observation of an asteroid surface, according to the agency.