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SMART-1 - Artist view

author: ESA/J.Huart/Novapix

reference: e-son16-01502

Image Size 300 DPI: 28 * 20 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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2003 - ASTRONOMY - ILLUSTRATION - ION - MOON - PROPULSION - SATELLITE - SMART-1 - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -