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exploiting the resources on earth for as long as we have been around, but instead of looking down now at what is underneath our feet, we are starting to look up and see what else is out there. ultimately, what we are looking at doing is going to an asteroid, landing on it, taking samples and then, kind of bringing them back. yes, we re going asteroid mining! and these are the concept designs for machines that could one day be part of a new gold rush well, actually, platinum rush that could potentially be worth quintillions of pounds. and this is the first part of that robot the claw that stops it from floating away from the asteroid by gripping onto the surface hard. the grippers that they use are essentially derived from, ultimately, things like gecko pads and if you look at, like, the ends of tarantula s feet, you know, the hairs that they have? that s how a spider is able to climb the wall.
of platinum in one of our meteorites, then we can certainly tell the amc guys, ok, the types of meteorites that we re finding platinum in are likely to involve this type of asteroid, so now, it is over to you. and, you know, these days, we can actually go one better than waiting for space debris to come to us. and we have gone and got it. the uk s national space centre in leicester is at the centre of the universe well, that s what they tell me, anyway so let s hit their planetarium for a quick recap one of the most daring space rock missions so far. the asteroid belt is this ring of bits and bobs that orbits the sun further out than mars, but that s not where all the asteroids are. if we fly back towards the sun, past mars, you will find some asteroids a lot closer to earth. and one of those is called ryugu, and that s the one that all the fuss was about. back in 2018, we visited the japanese space agency, jaxa, to meet the team
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behind hayabusa2. this audacious mission successfully flew to ryugu, blew a hole in it, and brought samples back to earth. so, we thought before the landing that it was one sort of asteroid, but now we ve actually started analysing it, we realise it s actually experienced an awful lot of alteration with water. and, as we know, water could mean life. but what does professor bridges think about commercial asteroid mining? i think it s a really fascinating area. will it be economic to bring back a large fragment of an asteroid, which is very metal rich, say? will it make more economic sense to recycle and reuse or have a new mine on earth? it could take decades before anyone successfully pulls off asteroid mining which, considering there are only