NEAR OS Lands on Eros NASA Animated Asteroid Comet Landing
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Launch Date: 17 February 1996
On Feb. 12 2001
NEAR Shoemaker made a gentle,
picture-perfect 3-point landing.
The touchdown was so elegant that the craft
was still operating and sending a signal back to Earth even after landing.
Dr. Andrew Cheng of APL, says the glamorous part of the
mission is over but now scientists can get down to studying the data, including
the more than 160,000 detailed images taken by the spacecraft. "We solved
mysteries, we unveiled more mysteries. Now we're sharing the amazing
amount of data that we collected with scientists all over the world, to sort
through and debate and hopefully to help us discover facts about Eros and our
solar system that no one knows today."
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/near.html
Re-Contact Dec. 10 2003:
"The new experiment was to see how robust the spacecraft and its instrumentation and subsystems were given the extremely cold temperature it has been in for nearly TWO YEARS.
Then they sent commands asking NEAR Shoemaker to transmit data indicating it had survived on the asteroid's surface, despite temperatures that dipped as low as minus 170 degrees Celsius (-274 degrees Fahrenheit)
and long periods of total darkness.
The team will probably never
know precisely why
NEAR Shoemaker did not respond.
http://near.jhuapl.edu/Launch Date: 17 February 1996
On Feb. 12 2001
NEAR Shoemaker made a gentle,
picture-perfect 3-point landing.
The touchdown was so elega...all »Launch Date: 17 February 1996
On Feb. 12 2001
NEAR Shoemaker made a gentle,
picture-perfect 3-point landing.
The touchdown was so elegant that the craft
was still operating and sending a signal back to Earth even after landing.
Dr. Andrew Cheng of APL, says the glamorous part of the
mission is over but now scientists can get down to studying the data, including
the more than 160,000 detailed images taken by the spacecraft. "We solved
mysteries, we unveiled more mysteries. Now we're sharing the amazing
amount of data that we collected with scientists all over the world, to sort
through and debate and hopefully to help us discover facts about Eros and our
solar system that no one knows today."
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/near.html
Re-Contact Dec. 10 2003:
"The new experiment was to see how robust the spacecraft and its instrumentation and subsystems were given the extremely cold temperature it has been in for nearly TWO YEARS.
Then they sent commands asking NEAR Shoemaker to transmit data indicating it had survived on the asteroid's surface, despite temperatures that dipped as low as minus 170 degrees Celsius (-274 degrees Fahrenheit)
and long periods of total darkness.
The team will probably never
know precisely why
NEAR Shoemaker did not respond.
http://near.jhuapl.edu/«
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