Scientists who have succeeded in making space research that is unimaginable to man.

                         

We may have read about satellite landing in space but we may not know about a satellite landing on an asteroid. A satellite landing on a meteorite is a very rare historical event.

A human satellite landed on the asteroid Eros for the first time in space history. This feat was accomplished on February 12, 2001, 20 million miles from Earth. The ‘Near Shoemaker’ spacecraft sent by the United States has achieved this feat by landing in the space station Eros.

The spacecraft is 33 kilometres long and 13 kilometres wide. So far, only human-sent satellites have landed on planets and sub-planets with high Earth gravity, but, surprisingly, the spacecraft landed on an asteroid with very low gravity.

With this, scientists believe that there is a possibility of landing spacecraft on comets as well. The region between Mars and Jupiter is home to a large number of asteroids made of rough rocks ranging from a kilometre to a thousand kilometres in diameter, one of which is the rock, Eros.

Eros is a Greek word; Eros is the name of a Greek god of love. No spacecraft has ever come this close and captured a picture. For the first time, the “Near Shoemaker” spacecraft has come close enough to capture images, making it possible to easily capture even the smallest rocks and send them back to Earth. Scientists hope that meteorites may provide scientific evidence about the origin of life on Earth.

Scientists believe that by landing spacecraft on such rocks and comets in space, we can gain a more complete understanding of the universe. There is no doubt that the success of such research will take the origin of the human organism to an unimaginable place.