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Rosetta’s First Peek at the Comet’s Dark Side

By DC Angle JPL, Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo | NASA, Markus Bauer | ESA on Oct 5, 2015   Featured, Science/Education  

Rosetta’s First Peek at the Comet’s Dark Side

Since its arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been surveying the surface and the environment of this curiously shaped body. But for a long time, a portion of the nucleus — the dark, cold regions around the comet’s south pole — remained inaccessible to almost all instruments on the spacecraft. […]

Rosetta’s ‘Philae’ Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet

By DC Angle/Guy Webster|Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dwayne Brown|NASA, Markus Bauer|ESA on Nov 12, 2014   Featured, Science/Education  

After more than a decade traveling through space, a robotic lander built by the European Space Agency has made the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet. Mission controllers at ESA’s mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, […]

Rosetta’s Comet Scrambling Its Jets

By DC Agle|Jet Prpulsion Laboratory, Dwayne Brown|NASA, Markus Bauer|European Space Agency on Oct 29, 2014   Featured, Science/Education  

This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by Rosetta’s Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) on Sept. 20, from a distance of 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers), shows jets of dust and gas streaming into space from the neck of the comet’s nucleus. Images of the comet nucleus, taken by Rosetta earlier in the summer, […]

Rosetta Arrives at Target Comet

By DC Angle JPL, Dwayne Brown | NASA, Markus Bauer | ESA on Aug 10, 2014   Breaking News, Featured, Science/Education  

After a decade-long journey chasing its target, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta, carrying three NASA instruments, became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet. The last of a series of 10 rendezvous maneuvers that began in May, to adjust Rosetta’s speed and trajectory to gradually match those of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, occurred today (Aug. 6, […]

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