In-Situ Investigation of Asteroid (162173) Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 MASCOT Lander

Matthias Grott1, Ralf Jaumann2, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier3, J.-P. Bibring4, T.-M. Ho5, David Hercik3, Hans Ulrich Auster3, Jens Biele6, Lorda Laurence7, Aurelie Moussi7, Maximiliam Hamm8, Knollenberg Joerg9, Nicole Schmitz10, Stefan Schroeder10,11, Katharina A. Otto12, Christian Krause13, Cedric Pilorget14, Vincent Hamm14, Hajime Yano15, Tatsuaki Okada16, Naoya Sakatani17, Reill Josef18, Kaname Sasaki19, Markus Schlotterer19, Yuichi Tsuda16, Stephan Ulamec6, Friederike Wolff18, Patrick Michel20, Marco Delbo21, Kazunori Ogawa22, Hiroki Senshu23, Frank Preusker24, Frank Scholten9, Stefan Elgner9, Stefano Mottola9, Ekkehard Kuhrt25, Takanao Saiki16 and Yuya Mimasu26, (1)German Aerospace Ctr DLR, Berlin, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Ctr, Berlin, Germany, (3)Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (4)Univ. de Paris Sud-Orsay, IAS, Orsay, France, (5)German Aerospace Center DLR Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (6)German Aerospace Center DLR Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (7)National Centre for Space Studies, CNES, Toulouse, France, (8)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany, (9)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany, (10)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (11)Aix Marseille University, Marseille Cedex 03, France, (12)German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Berlin, Germany, (13)German Aerospace Center, DLR, Cologne, Greece, (14)IAS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay Cedex, France, (15)JAXA, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, (16)JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (17)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (18)German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (19)German Aerospace Center, DLR, Bremen, Germany, (20)UNS-CNRS-Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Laboratoire Lagrange, NIce, France, (21)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (22)Center for Planetary Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, (23)Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan, (24)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Department of Planetary Geodesy, Berlin, Germany, (25)DLR, Berlin, Germany, (26)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan