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    Impacting into the asteroid

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    • Title Impacting into the asteroid
    • Released 30/03/2006 1:50 pm
    • Copyright ESA - AOES Medialab
    • Description

      The key moment of the Don Quijote mission: the Impactor spacecraft (Hidalgo) smashes into the asteroid while observed, from a safe distance, by the Orbiter spacecraft (Sancho)


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    • Mission Don Quijote
    • Keywords Comets and Asteroids

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