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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.
The Luna programme was the first successful lunar programme, its Luna 1 (1959) being the first partially successful lunar mission The first image taken of the far side of the Moon, returned by Luna 3 (1959) Missions to the Moon have been numerous and include some of the earliest space missions, conducting exploration of the Moon since 1959.
Flyby; discovered Dactyl; first asteroid with a moon visited by a spacecraft, largest asteroid visited by spacecraft at the time. 253 Mathilde: 66 × 48 × 46 (58 km) 1885 NEAR Shoemaker: 1997 1,212: 49.5 Flyby; largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft at the time. 433 Eros: 34 × 11 × 11 (17 km) 1898 NEAR Shoemaker: 1998–2001 landed: landed
🪨 Asteroids 🪨. NASA keeps a handy list of the five closest asteroids predicted to fly by Earth, including 2022 YH3, a whopping 290-foot rocky mass that whipped by our planet on January 14 ...
Comet observer and attempted asteroid flyby (engine failure) [454] DSCOVR: 11 February 2015 Solar observation [455] [456] ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and EDM lander: 14 March 2016 Mars orbiter and attempted lander (lander failure) [457] [458] OSIRIS-REx: 8 September 2016 Asteroid sample return mission (sample returned 24 September 2023 [needs ...
The comet, thought to be a "sungrazer" due to its closeness to the sun, may come within 81.8 million miles of the planet on Oct. 24 if it survives its journey, reports LiveScience.
An image shows the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in March 2015. New research from NASA says Jupiter-family comets like this one could have been potential sources of water for early Earth ...
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential human lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits.