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Keywords: Stardust project, spacecraft
![Эрос с орбиты](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/10/0001217529/erosorbit1_near_big.preview.jpg)
16.02.2000
On February 14th, the NEAR spacecraft became the first artificial moon of an asteroid. Captured by the gentle gravity of a 20 mile long slipper-shaped mountain of rock, NEAR recorded this premier image while orbiting asteroid 433 Eros at a distance of about 200 miles.
![Ландшафт на комете Темпеля 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/06/0001206640/tempel1_its_mov.preview.jpg)
6.07.2005
This diverse landscape is the surface of comet Temple 1's nucleus as seen by the Deep Impact probe's Impactor Targeting Sensor. Within minutes of recording the rugged view, the landscape had changed dramatically though, as the impactor smashed into the surface near the two large, half kilometer-sized craters at picture center.
![Тринадцать секунд после столкновения](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/06/0001206649/impact13sec_deepimpact_hri.preview.jpg)
5.07.2005
Fireworks came early on July 4th when, at 1:52am EDT, the Deep Impact spacecraft's probe smashed into the surface of Comet Tempel 1's nucleus at ten kilometers per second. The well-targeted impactor probe was vaporized as it blasted out an expanding cloud of material, seen here 13 seconds after the collision.
![Полный вперед "Дип Спейс-1"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199932/ds1_jpl.preview.jpg)
22.09.2001
At full throttle the Deep Space 1 spacecraft's innovative ion drive produces about 1/50th of a pound of thrust ... a force so great that it would just about hold up a piece of paper on planet Earth! Still, powered by solar arrays ion propulsion systems can run continuously.
![Далекий космос 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/13/0001199177/deepspace1_jpl_big.preview.gif)
3.12.1998
Going gently into the night, Deep Space 1's ion drive has been running smoothly since it was restarted on November 24. How powerful is this high-tech spacecraft's ion propulsion system? At full...
![Солнечный парус](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/23/0001199369/solarsail_msfc.preview.jpg)
21.08.2004
Could solar sailing become a future Olympic sport? Nearly 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler observed comet tails blown by a solar breeze and suggested that vessels might likewise navigate through space using appropriately fashioned sails.
![Гравитационный тягач](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/11/10/0001209381/gravtug_durda_smallc.preview.jpg)
10.11.2005
How would you change the course of an Earth-threatening asteroid? One idea - a massive spacecraft that uses gravity as a towline - is illustrated in this dramatic artist's view of a gravitational tractor in action.
![Автопортрет Розетты](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/10/16/0001323508/ESA_Rosetta_Philae_CIVA_141007.preview.png)
16.10.2014
This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was snapped on October 7th. At the time the spacecraft was about 472 million kilometers from planet Earth, but only 16 kilometers from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Looming beyond...
![Космические лучи на Вояджере-1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/09/08/0001269826/Voyager1PGHSep2012.preview.png)
8.09.2012
Launched on a grand tour of the outer planets in 1977, by good fortune the twin Voyager spacecraft were also headed in the general direction of the Sun's motion relative to nearby stars. Thirty five years later, Voyager 1 appears to be nearing the boundary of the Sun's heliosphere and interstellar space.
![Стерео-Веста](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/08/30/0001253499/vestaPIA14327_900c.preview.jpg)
20.08.2011
Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to 4 Vesta. A 500 kilometer diameter world, Vesta lies in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This stereo anaglyph...
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