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An irregularly shaped, 19 x 12 x 11 kilometer S-type asteroid discovered in 1916 that became the first asteroid ever photographed up close when the Galileo spacecraft flew past it in 1991.
A robotic spacecraft launched in 2014 that rendezvoused with asteroid Ryugu, deployed multiple landers, collected samples through two touchdowns, and successfully returned 5.4 grams of material to Earth in December 2020.
A cold, dusty red planet with massive extinct volcanoes, deep canyons, frozen polar caps, and evidence of ancient water flows, making it the most Earth-like planet in the Solar System.
2024-2025
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