🛰️🪨 NASA NEAR Shoemaker Spacecraft Landing on Asteroid Eros 🚀✨#NASA #spacexploration #fblifestyles #Amazing #Astronomy | Space Xplore

☄️🚀 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

NASA NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft landing on asteroid Eros! | Space Voyager

On June 27, 1997, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft flew by an asteroid named 253 Mathilde. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/3A-It7 NEAR, which stands for Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, launched in 1996 to go orbit another asteroid named 433 Eros, and it flew by Mathilde along the way. The spacecraft was hibernating in a low-power state for nearly 16 months before the mission's scientists woke it up to look at Mathilde. It whizzed by the asteroid going over 22,000 miles pe

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. More Space History 👉https://trib.al/NE8PmAU 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 planned, NASA spent a cou

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