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On this day in 2016 – October 19th – ESA's ExoMars arrived at Mars.

There were two parts to the mission. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was successfully inserted into orbit and is working as expected. However due to a systems malfunction, the experimental lander Schiaparelli crashlanded on Mars.

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On this day in 1923 – October 21st – the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany presented the world's first public planetarium show.

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On this day in 2008 – October 21st – India's space agency, ISRO, launched the Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe.

It was India's first satellite to leave Earth orbit, and the mission also included the first Indian deep space radio communications antenna.

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On this day in 1905 – October 22nd – American physicist and radio engineer Karl Jansky was born.

In August 1931 Jansky first discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. He's considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

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On this day in 1975 – October 22nd – the Soviet Union's Venera 9 went into orbit around Venus.

The mission included an orbiter - the first to orbit another planet - and a lander, which was the first to return images from another planet.

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On this day in 1969 – October 23rd – the discovery of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was announced by the discoverers to the Central International Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams.

This is the comet on which ESA's Rosetta spacecraft and the lander Philae lie after two years of studying it.

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On this day in 1851 – October 24th – English astronomer William Lassell discovered two moons of Uranus, Umbriel and Ariel.

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On this day in 2001 – October 24th – NASA's Mars Odyssey arrived at Mars.

It's looking for evidence of past or present water and ice, as well as studying the planet's geology and radiation environment. It's also acting as a relay for the Curiosity rover.

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On this day in 2007 – October 24th – China launched Chang'e 1.

The unmanned lunar-orbiting spacecraft was part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program - the spacecraft was named after the Chinese Moon goddess.

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On this day in 1671 – October 25th – Jean Dominique Cassini discovered Iapetus, moon of Saturn.

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