Landing safely on an asteroid is no mean feat. Despite several recent successes, there have also been notable failures--most famously, the Philae lander to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Admittedly, that was an attempt to land on a comet rather than an asteroid, but those two bodies share many of the same landing hazards.
Landing safely on an asteroid is no mean feat. Despite several recent successes, there have also been notable failures--most famously, the Philae lander to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Admittedly, that was an attempt to land on a comet rather than an asteroid, but those two bodies share many of the same landing hazards.
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