NASA's NEAR Shoemaker (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft captured this high-resolution footage of 433 Eros in 2000, marking the first time a spacecraft ever orbited an asteroid. The mission revealed that the "potato-shaped" Eros is a solid, primitive object approximately 33 kilometers (21 miles) long, rather than a loose "rubble pile". Throughout its year-long orbit, the spacecraft mapped the asteroid's surface, which is pockmarked with more than 100,000 craters and scattered with over
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NASA's NEAR Shoemaker (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft captured this high-resolution footage of 433 Eros in 2000, marking the first time a spacecraft ever orbited an asteroid. The mission revealed that the "potato-shaped" Eros is a solid, primitive object approximately 33 kilometers (21 miles) long, rather than a loose "rubble pile". Throughout its year-long orbit, the spacecraft mapped the asteroid's surface, which is pockmarked with more than 100,000 craters and scattered with over
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☄️🚀 NASA NEAR Shoemaker Touches Down on Asteroid Eros A historic landing on a world barely held together by gravity. In 2001, NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid, gently touching the surface of 433 Eros after a year in orbit. The mission revealed Eros as a rubble-covered, cratered relic from the early solar system—offering priceless clues about how planets formed. | Space Xplore
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☄️🚀 NASA NEAR Shoemaker Touches Down on Asteroid Eros A historic landing on a world barely held together by gravity. In 2001, NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid, gently touching the surface of 433 Eros after a year in orbit. The mission revealed Eros as a rubble-covered, cratered relic from the early solar system—offering priceless clues about how planets formed. | Space Xplore
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On February 12, 2001, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros. Discover more space history 👉https://space-com.visitlink.me/tBILEJ This was the first soft landing on an asteroid, and it was supposed to be the last thing NEAR-Shoemaker ever did. But NASA was surprised to find that the spacecraft was still intact and totally fine after hitting the asteroid. Instead of ending the mission as pl
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