as well as designing the rest of the robot, with help of tohoko university injapan, the asteroid miningon need to find the right asteroid to mine. now, that's done by looking at the chemical composition of meteorites to identify what their parent bodies — in this case, asteroids — are made of. so, there you go. each element has been assigned randomly a colour. so, in this image, all the green is iron, all the orange is calcium, the pink is silicon, the cyan is magnesium and there's also some darker green that is oxygen in here. is it the case that you will look through all your meteorite samples and one day, you'll come across something that's, say, rich in platinum, and then that gives them then the green light to go get it? absolutely. if we find a concentration 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

as well as designing the rest of the robot, with help of tohoko university injapan, the asteroid miningight asteroid to mine. now, that's done by looking at the chemical composition of meteorites to identify what their parent bodies — in this case, asteroids — are made of. so, there you go. each element has been assigned randomly a colour. so, in this image, all the green is iron, all the orange is calcium, the pink is silicon, the cyan is magnesium and there's also some darker green that is oxygen in here. is it the case that you will look through all your meteorite samples and one day you'll come across something that's, say, rich in platinum, and then that gives them then the green light to go get it? absolutely. if we find a concentration of platinum in one of our "ok, the types of meteorites that we're finding platinum in "are likely to come from 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 ce

as well as designing the rest of the robot, with help of tohoko university injapan, the asteroid mining find the right asteroid to mine. now that is done by looking at the chemical composition of meteorites, to identify what their parent bodies, in this case asteroids, are made of. so there you go, each element has been resigned randomly a colour. so in this image the green is iron, all the orange is calcium, the pink is silicon, the cyan is magnesium and there is also some darker green that is oxygen. is it the case that you will look through all your meteorite samples, and one day you will come across something that's, say, rich in platinum, and then that gives them then the green light to go get it? absolutely. if we find a concentration of platinum in one of our meteorites we can certainly tell the amc guys, 0k, the types of meteorites we are finding platinum in is likely to involve this type of asteroid, so now it is over to you. and 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 l

as well as designing the rest of the robot, with help of tohoko university injapan, the asteroid miningthat's, say, rich in platinum, and then that gives them then the green light to go get it? absolutely. if we find a concentration 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

as well as designing the rest of the robot, with help of tohoko university injapan, the asteroid miningsteroids — are made of. so, there you go. each element has been assigned randomly a colour. so, in this image, all the green is iron, all the orange is calcium, the pink is silicon, the cyan is magnesium and there's also some darker green that is oxygen in here. is it the case that you will look through all your meteorite samples and one day, you'll come across something that's, say, rich in platinum, and then that gives them then the green light to go get it? absolutely. if we find a concentration 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