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Jumping on an asteroid: How VR is being used to visit worlds we can never reach
There was something about this experience that felt "sticky."
But as a space tragic and someone who stood on top of a dirt hill in Coober Pedy, Australia as samples from Ryugu came hurtling back to Earth in 2020, I would also describe myself as bloody excited to stand on an asteroid. (Image credit: Jackson Ryan)Elizabeth Tasker, a professor at JAXA and part of the agency's outreach team, noted that it's hard to establish whether the topology of Ryugu is to scale. I've written more words about Ryugu's surface, its chemistry and importance in planetary science than most, but being able to stand on it, even digitally, provided a real "oh, damn" moment — an appreciation of the difficulty in landing on a tiny rock, floating millions of miles from the Earth.
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