![]() ![]() > The InSight lander observed the first recorded Marsquake in April. NASA declared the Mars rover Opportunity's mission over on 13 February. The Japanese asteroid exploration mission Hayabusa2 made a second touchdown with 162173 Ryugu to collect samples, and departed for Earth on 12 November. This is the farthest object from the Sun ever to have a close encounter with a spacecraft. The probe New Horizons encountered the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth on 1 January. India launched the delayed Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter/lander/rover in July the orbiter reached lunar orbit in September, but the Vikram lander crashed onto the lunar surface. ![]() The Beresheet lander from SpaceIL made the landing attempt in April, but crashed onto the Moon. Israel's SpaceIL, one of the participants in the expired Google Lunar X Prize, launched the first private mission to the Moon in February. The first panorama from the far side of the Moon, captured by Chang'e 4 lander
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