Cool Stuff Reentry of Japan’s Hayabusa asteroid sample return spacecraft, 2010 (x-post from /r/gifs) livescience — July 11, 2021 5 comments Reentry of Japan’s Hayabusa asteroid sample return spacecraft, 2010 (x-post from /r/gifs) gifs space
I’m trying to make out where the craft is, because it looks like everything pretty much disintegrates away. Is the bright spot in the lower right the nose? And where the rest of the burning debris the backend of the craft? Reply
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I’m trying to make out where the craft is, because it looks like everything pretty much disintegrates away. Is the bright spot in the lower right the nose? And where the rest of the burning debris the backend of the craft?
If the spacecraft is in the bottom right, what exactly is burning up in the top left?
*The More You Know!*
[More information.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa) The capsule made it down.