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As NASA celebrated the successful landing of a capsule filled with gravel and soil from asteroid Bennu, the spacecraft that dropped it off was already long gone. The robot, which has been flying for seven years on the space agency’s OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return mission, won’t get ...
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The truly hard part is landing on the planet.For slowing down its speed when the lander(着陆器) landed on Mars, it used both a parachute (降落伞) and a retrorocket (减速火箭) in its own “seven minutes of terror(恐怖) "as it moved through the atmosphere(大气层). It then landed in...
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
根据第二段 “The truly hard part is landing on the planet's surface, as landers must contend with factors like the planet's thin atmosphere, its variable dust storms, and a communication delay between Mars and Earth.”可知,真正困难的部分是在火星表面着陆,因为着陆器必须应对火星稀薄的大气层、...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft sent to return lunar rocks to Earth collected its first samples Wednesday after landing on the moon, the government announced, adding to a string of successes for Beijing's increasingly ambitious space program.
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The Shenzhou XII manned spacecraft(宇宙飞船) returned to Earth on September 17, carrying three Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Teng Hongbue. The reentry capsule(返回舱) landed down at the Dongfeng landing place in Inner Mongolia at 1:34 p.m., three astronauts were found in...
The landing module touched down at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time in a huge crater known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the China National Space Administration said. The mission is the sixth in the Chang'e moon exploration program, which is named after a Chinese moon goddess. It is the second...