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First attempt to land near the Moon's south pole; lost contact at 2.1 km and crashed. Chang'e 5 China: 1 December 2020 10] [11] First lunar sample return mission by China. Sample successfully returned to Earth on 16 December 2020. 7 December 2020
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
Successfully landed, returned images, and hopped along surface. First rovers on an asteroid. MASCOT: DLR/CNES: 3 October 2018: Alice's Wonderland: 17 h 14 min [17] ~17.9 m (59 ft) [17] Successfully landed, returned images from the surface, and performed multiple hops along surface. MINERVA-II Rover-2: JAXA: October 2019: Unknown: 0 days: 0 m
A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped up a heaping sample of grit and dust. It was NASA's first-ever score of ...
FILE - A girl looks at the moon through a telescope in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. The best day to spot five planets, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars, lined up in the ...
It was the fastest spacecraft when leaving Earth and will be the fifth probe to leave the Solar System. Launched: 19 January 2006; Destination: Pluto and Charon; Arrival: 14 July 2015; Left Charon: 14 July 2015; Institution: NASA; Voyager 1. Mission: investigating Jupiter and Saturn, and the moons of these planets.
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024 [update] , all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors .
Earth has one Moon, the largest moon of any rocky planet in the Solar System and the largest body typically described as a moon that orbits anything in hydrostatic equilibrium in relation to the primary object by mass and diameter other than Charon and Pluto, the latter two being dwarf planets revolving around each other. Earth also has more ...