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Entered orbit around 67P at 09:06 UTC on 6 August 2014. On 30 September 2016 mission ended in an attempt to slow land on the comet's surface near a 130 m (425 ft) wide pit called Deir el-Medina. Ariane 5G+ Philae: 2 March 2004: ESA / DLR Germany: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Lander Successful: Carried by Rosetta.
Minor planet Space probe; Name Image Dimensions (km) (a) Discovery year Name Closest approach Remarks year in km in radii (b); 2685 Masursky: 10.7: 1981 Cassini–Huygens
However, the mission was extended through 2025 to conduct 42 additional orbits, including close flybys of Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io. [24] At the end of its mission, Juno is planned to be deorbited and burned up in Jupiter's outer atmosphere [ 25 ] [ 26 ] to suppress the risk of biological contamination of its moons.
COmet Rendezvous, Sample Acquisition, Investigation, and Return (CORSAIR) is a concept mission to return comet nucleus samples to Earth for detailed analysis.The mission concept was submitted in May 2017 by a team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in response to the New Frontiers program call for mission 4, but did not pass the initial down selection.
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These missions were able to photograph and examine only the surfaces of cometary nuclei, and even then from considerable distances. The Deep Impact mission was the first to eject material from a comet's surface, and the mission garnered considerable publicity from the media, international scientists, and amateur astronomers alike.
Galileo 's prime mission was a two-year study of the Jovian system, but on March 26, 1993, while it was en route, astronomers Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eugene M. Shoemaker and David H. Levy discovered fragments of a comet orbiting Jupiter, the remains of a comet that had passed within Jupiter's Roche limit and had been torn apart by tidal forces.
As of 2022 there are no mission proposals to C/2014 UN 271, nor are there any upcoming missions that can be retargeted to the comet. The European Space Agency 's upcoming Comet Interceptor mission, which will launch in 2029 and make a flyby of a long-period comet within Earth's orbit, will not be able to reach C/2014 UN 271 due to its large ...