Mission:Samples

An exciting collection 3D game! 

Real-world inspired, private and secure! Keep reading for more detail. 

You are a lone rover on a very important mission to a tiny asteroid. Humankind and the taxpayer entrust you with collecting geological samples. You need to rush and look for geologically interesting rocks,  and you can also activate the radar to view a mini-map , but plan carefully and watch your energy levels.  Be careful not to waste precious energy or you will run out of power! Hide the map when you don't need it. although it contains crucial information of where important samples, close to your location but not yet visible, are located. 

Choose your favourite asteroid! Each with a unique story and a different mood and soundtrack. Play all of them, then play again and try to beat your score!   

It has been long known that asteroid 13342 Centriphuga is a mystery.  Scientists, through spectrography, detected strange and puzzling data: elements and chemicals on the surface are not common for these kind of asteroids. There are too many of them to be meteorites from all over the solar system. 16 years ago, an international team of scientists and engineers in an effort to find answers to some of the universe's greatest mysteries, started to imagine and design the Asteroid Geological Explorer, a daring expedition to an asteroid to retrieve samples. Named AGE (short for Asteroid Geological Explorer), the mission departed after a 10 years long effort, the rocket was launched from earth 6 years ago. In a 6 year long journey, the spacecraft finally reached the asteroid 13342 Centriphuga....... 

The mission team, to reduce costs,  produced an extra number of identical instances of the bus, since AGE2 is supposed to mass-manufacture rovers and orbiters and is now about to enter Phase C.  However, two years into the project, due to a sudden spike in public opinion's interest and the simultaneous drop of price for bringing mass to orbit,  after many frantic phone calls from politicians all over the globe to principal investigators equally all over the globe, but usually in the wrong timezone, the team has been faced with the challenge to get two other rovers set up and ready for launch. One was equipped with the  spares and has traveled to  25143 Itokawa, the target of the JAXA sample return mission Hayabusa in 2005. The other, equipped with the qualifications articles, traveled to 101955 Bennu, the target of the NASA sample return mission OSIRIS-REx in 2020. The aim is to standardize procedures and especially to compare data from previous sample return missions. To this aim, a detailed and articulated picture of the asteroids' complex geology is required, and many samples are needed. AGE2, the ambitious plan to map the geology of the whole solar system, needs to prove this is actually and routinely doable. 

Your human friends rely on you! Do your job well, and AGE2 will be approved! And maybe your identical twins still languishing at 1.000 AU will have a chance to fly.

 Hello, new world! 

You can play our game for free on the browser by visiting directly our Unity webpage, Mission:Samples  We suggest that if you like and enjoy the game, you send us the equivalent of 10 minutes of your time.  Please also share your suggestions for future asteroids to visit and new features ! Thank you very much!

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Credits: 

Game written in Unity 

Night sky background image, asteroids, asteroid textures courtesy of NASA  Full Earth from Wikimedia.

Music: Minimoon Voyager by Polygrim (Volodymyr Dzitsiuk) for asteroid Centriphuga, SpaceAmbient (Bennu) and SpaceAmbient Cinematic (Itokawa) by DELOSound, Pixabay.