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Image of Surveyor 1 shadow against the lunar surface in the late lunar afternoon, with the horizon at the upper right. Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved the spacecraft design and landing technique

An artist concept of NASA Mars Global Surveyor MGS flying over Mars.

NASA's NEO Surveyor is seen in this illustration against an infrared observation of a starfield made by the agency's WISE mission.

The bus structure for NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is installed on a “shaker table” at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, during vibration testing conducted in August 2025.

The bus structure of the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor spacecraft underwent testing at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2025.

Standing at over 20 feet (6 meters) high, the sunshade is the largest component of the NEO Surveyor spacecraft.

The bus structure for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor spacecraft is installed to the sunshade during a “fit check” at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in September 2025.

An engineer inspects the surface of four mid-wavelength infrared science detectors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission atop a clean room bench at the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in Logan, Utah.

Four mid-wavelength infrared science detectors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission are shown here on a clean room bench at the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in Logan, Utah.

This artist's concept depicts NASA's NEO Surveyor in deep space. The black-paneled angular structure in the belly of the spacecraft is the instrument enclosure that is being built at JPL.

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