Probe crashes into Moon's surface
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Europe's lunar satellite, the Smart 1 probe, ends its mission by crashing onto the Moon's surface.
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PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 24 -- The Cassini spacecraft hurtled toward a Christmas Eve mission to release a probe that will plunge through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan.
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Early this morning, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agencyâs SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the âLake of Excellenceâ region.
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PARIS, France -- Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon has successfully entered lunar orbit, a key milestone in its 13-month trip into space.
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The Genesis space capsule, which promised scientists potential clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth today.
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PASADENA, CALIF. - A space probe has begun a 21-day freefall toward Saturn&#39;s largest moon in a mission that scientists hope will shed light on the development of life on Earth.
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A European spacecraft landed in mud when it hit the surface of Titan, a scientist said Tuesday, revealing animated pictures of the final feet of its descent to the moon of Saturn.
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There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe&#39;s success in entering the moon&#39;s orbit.
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Europe's first mission to the moon is due to crash-land in a cloud of dust and rock Sunday, ending a three-year voyage that gathered data about the lunar surface and tested a new engine intended to propel future spacecraft to Mercury and other planets.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - The world's first glimpse of  the surface of the Saturnian moon Titan revealed an unexpected  mix of icy land and liquid as the Huygens space probe touched  down on Friday.
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2nd LD Writethru: European probe SMART-1 crashes into moon's surface    PARIS, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The SMART-1 orbiter of the European Space Agency, a probe launched aboard an Ariane-5 rocket in September 2003, on Sunday crashed into the moon's surface.
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It was the slowest and possibly the cheapest trip to the Moon, yet Europe's first lunar mission has ended as planned with a spectacular crash landing.
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DARMSTADT, Germany  - A European space probe Friday sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon Titan, showing stunning black and white images of what appeared to be hilly terrain riddled with channels carved by some sort of liquid.
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Europe&#39;s unmanned space probe has successfully entered its first orbit of the Moon, spiraling closer to the lunar surface on a journey that began more than 13 months ago, the European Space Agency said on its Web site.
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BERLIN, Nov. 16 -- A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, marking a key milestone in Europe&#39;s first successful mission to the moon and setting the stage for the craft to begin studying the lunar
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Scientists are taking extra care to ensure the landing of Cassiniâs Huygens probe on a moon in January. Scientists studying Saturn with the Cassini spacecraft have tweaked their planned route, an effort
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PASADENA, Calif.  - The European-built space probe  Huygens entered the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan,  on Friday in the last lap of a historic voyage to unveil the  secrets of the moon's fog-shrouded surface.