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Kepler-452b (sometimes quoted to be an Earth 2.0 or Earth's Cousin [4] [5] based on its characteristics; also known by its Kepler object of interest designation KOI-7016.01) is a candidate [6] [7] super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the inner edge of the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-452 and is the only planet in the system discovered by the Kepler space telescope.
first spacecraft to orbit another planet 1971-051A: Mars 2: USSR 27 November 1971 – 22 August 1972 orbiter success first Soviet spacecraft to orbit another planet 1971-045A Mars 2 Lander: USSR 27 November 1971 lander failure crashed; first manmade object to reach surface of Mars 1971-045D PrOP-M: USSR 27 November 1971 rover failure never ...
Venera 7 made the first successful landing on another planet, and returned signals from the surface of Venus for 23 minutes. [5] Mars 2 Orbiter and Lander: Mars 19 May 1971 27 November 1971 impact: 193 days (6 mo, 9 d) The Mars 2 lander crashed into Mars on 27 November 1971, in a failed soft landing attempt.
Malhotra & Volk (2017) [82] argued that an unexpected variance in inclination for KBOs farther than the cliff at 50 AU (7.5 billion km; 4.6 billion mi) provided evidence of a possible Mars-sized planet, possibly up to 2.4 M E, residing at the edge of the Solar System, which many news sources began referring to as "Planet Ten".
In their rest frame the distance between the Earth and the star system is α d = 0.6 × 4 = 2.4 light years (length contraction), for both the outward and return journeys. Each half of the journey takes α d / v = 2.4 / 0.8 = 3 years, and the round trip takes twice as long (6 years). Their calculations show that they will arrive home having ...
The first report of an exoplanet within this range was in 1998 for a planet orbiting around Gliese 876 (15.3 light-years (ly) away), and the latest as of 2024 is one around Struve 2398 A (11.5 ly). The closest exoplanets are those found orbiting the star closest to the Solar System, which is Proxima Centauri 4.25 light-years away.
First Venus lander and the first spacecraft to "soft" land on another planet (with some data returned from the surface) [18] [161] [162] Luna 16: 12 September 1970 First robotic lunar sample return [10] [163] Zond 8: 20 October 1970 Lunar flyby and return to Earth [46] [164] [165] Luna 17/Lunokhod 1: 10 November 1970 First remote controlled ...
Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets. [3] Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program.