26 January 2005
ESA's SMART-1 captured its first close-range images of the Moon this January, during a sequence of test lunar observations from an altitude between 1000 and 5000 kilometres above the lunar surface.

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Thanks Sir Ulli.

I was wondering when we would be able to see the first images. Here they are.

I'm expecting we will see more and more details during the following weeks: if I'm not wrong, I believe I read that Smart will come closer and closer to the moon surface in the following weeks/months.

SMART-1 mission extended

16 February 2005
ESA's SMART-1 mission was extended by one year, pushing back the mission end date from August 2005 to August 2006.

ESA's Science Programme Committee endorsed unanimously the proposed one-year extension of SMART-1 on 10 February 2005.
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> SMART-1 mission extended
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> 16 February 2005
> ESA's SMART-1 mission was extended by one year, pushing back the mission end
> date from August 2005 to August 2006.
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> ESA's Science Programme Committee endorsed unanimously the proposed one-year
> extension of SMART-1 on 10 February 2005.
> ...
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thanks Sir Ulli __ for this very interesting _ science post

Hi Ulli ,

Hi Thierry ,

Thierry Van Driessche




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The Smart One

Exploring the Other Globe
by Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist, European Space Agency

The European Space Agency's SMART missions - Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology - are designed to test new spacecraft technology while visiting various places in the solar system. SMART-1 is now at the moon, mapping the surface mineralogy. Future missions can use the technology being tested by SMART-1 to go to Mars, Venus, Mercury, comets, and the sun.

In this article, Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist at ESA and Project Scientist for SMART-1, explains what finding water on the moon could mean for future exploration.

This is the first in a series of exclusive articles by Bernard Foing for Astrobiology Magazine.

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