... 2001, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft gently touched-down on the surface of Eros -- the first ever landing on an asteroid ... from slightly different viewpoints , allowing Vantuyne to construct close-up stereo images of the surface of asteroid 433 Eros ...
... These martian moons may well be captured asteroids originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or perhaps from even more distant reaches of the Solar System. ...
... Phobos and Deimos appear very similar to C-type asteroids , yet gravitationally capturing such asteroids, circularizing their orbits, and dragging them into Mars' equatorial plane seems unlikely. ...
... A 500 kilometer diameter world, Vesta lies in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. ... After a year exploring the asteroid from orbit, Dawn is scheduled to depart, beginning its journey to Ceres . ...
... These martian moons may well be captured asteroids originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or perhaps from even more distant reaches of the Solar System. ...
... These martian moons may well be captured asteroids originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or perhaps from even more distant reaches of the Solar System. ...