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Keywords: Stardust project, spacecraft
![Обвал на астероиде Веста](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/12/14/0001255116/vestaslide_dawn_900.preview.jpg)
28.11.2011
Asteroid Vesta is home to some of the most impressive cliffs in the Solar System. Pictured above near the image center is a very deep cliff running about 20 kilometers from top to bottom. The image was taken by the robotic Dawn spacecraft that began orbiting the 500-kilometer space rock earlier this year.
![SMART 1: кратер Пифагора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/02/03/0001202725/pythagorasCrater_smart_rc64.preview.jpg)
3.02.2005
Stark shadows show off the central peaks and terraced walls of 120 kilometer wide Pythagoras Crater in this mosaic of images from ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft. Characteristic of large, complex impact craters on the Moon, the central uplift was produced by a rebound of the suddenly molten lunar crust during the violent impact event.
![Кассини фотографирует Луну](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/13/0001217728/moon3_cassini_big.preview.jpg)
10.09.1999
On August 18, the Cassini spacecraft flew by the Earth and Moon, then continued on its way to the outer solar system. Near its closest approach to the Moon, a distance of about 377,000 kilometers, controllers tested Cassini's imaging systems on this most familiar celestial body.
![Космический аппарат Кассини приближается к Юпитеру](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/19/0001162397/jupitereuropa_cassini_big.preview.jpg)
11.10.2000
A new spacecraft has entered the outer Solar System: Cassini. Launched in 1997 and bound for Saturn in 2004, Cassini sent back the above image last week while approaching the giant planet Jupiter. Cassini joins the Galileo spacecraft currently in orbit around Jupiter in studying the gas giant and its moons.
![Астероид Веста](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/08/02/0001253101/vesta2_dawn_900.preview.jpg)
2.08.2011
Why is the northern half of asteroid Vesta more heavily cratered than the south? No one is yet sure. This unexpected mystery has come to light only in the past few weeks since the robotic Dawn mission became the first spacecraft to orbit the second largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
![50 лет назад: полёт "Свободы-7"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/05/0001251565/freedom7redstone900.preview.jpg)
5.05.2011
Fifty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers "lit the candle" and sent Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. His cramped space capsule was dubbed Freedom 7.
![Запуск "Мессенджера"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/16/0001199243/messengerstreak_cooper.preview.jpg)
14.08.2004
Streaking into the early morning sky on August 3rd, a Delta II rocket launches NASA's Messenger spacecraft on an interplanetary voyage to Mercury. Scheduled to become the first probe to orbit Mercury, Messenger will begin by looping through the inner Solar System in a series of close flybys of planet Earth and Venus.
![Розетта над Марсом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/03/01/0001220966/CIVA_Mars_30_H720rg.preview.jpg)
1.03.2007
Panels on ESA's Rosetta spacecraft appear in the foreground of this intriguing image of Mars recorded on February 25 at a range of about 1,000 kilometers. Launched in March 2004, Rosetta...
![NEAR около Эроса: перед посадкой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199957/nearmontage_vantuyne.preview.jpg)
24.08.2001
On 12 February, 2001, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft gently touched-down on the the surface of Eros -- the first ever landing on an asteroid. During the descent, the spacecraft's camera recorded successive images of the diminutive world's surface, revealing fractured boulders, dust filled craters, and a mysterious collapsed channel.
![NEAR - Шумейкер видит Эрос](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/08/0001217452/eros0314_near_big.preview.jpg)
16.03.2000
Orbiting asteroid 433 Eros, 145 million miles from Earth, NASA's NEAR spacecraft has been returning stunning views as its year long mission of exploration gets underway. A mosaic of recent NEAR images recorded...
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