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SMART-1 - Artist view
author: ESA/J.Huart/Novapix
reference: e-son16-01501
Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 18 cm
SMART-1 is the first of ESA's Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology. It travelled to the Moon using solar-electric propulsion and carrying a battery of miniaturised instruments. As well as testing new technology, SMART-1 did the first comprehensive inventory of key chemical elements in the lunar surface. It also investigated the theory that the Moon was formed following the violent collision of a smaller planet with Earth, four and a half thousand million years ago.
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ASTRONOMY - ILLUSTRATION - ION - MOON - PROPULSION - SATELLITE - SMART-1 - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -
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