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Ma’at Marks The Crash Spot For Rosetta (UPDATE)
UPDATE 6:39 am EDT: Rosetta’s mission came to an end as it gently crashed into the surface of…
Finding Philae. Rosetta Probe Spots Little Lander as Its Mission Nears End
On Friday (Sept. 2), Rosetta was within 2.7 kilometers of the comet’s surface when it captured this image.…
Philae Officially Goes Gently Into That Good Night, Rosetta Will Soon Join It
A few hours ago, the Electrical Support System Processor Unit aboard the Rosetta spacecraft was switched off. And…
Crashing Rosetta on Comet 67P Won’t be Easy
September 30. That’s the date the European Space Agency is going to deliberately crash the Rosetta spacecraft on…
Rosetta Adds Weight to Comet Life-Seeding Theory
During Earth’s early years, comets and asteroids pummeled the planet and brought water and organic molecules with them.…
Rosetta Spies a Comet 67P Eclipse
Comet 67P slipped right between the spacecraft and the Sun, and the Rosetta team was ready to snap…
The Latest on ESA’s Last Ditch Effort to Contact Philae Lander
The last time the European Space Agency received a signal from Rosetta’s lander (Philae) was on July 9,…
Comet 67P – What’s on the Dark Side?
Last year, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft reached comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. For months, Rosetta studied the sun-facing portions…
Scientists Now Have an Answer for Comet 67P’s Odd Shape
We’ve come a long way in our understanding of comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In March 2014, the ESA’s Rosetta probe…
The Rosetta Instrument Scientists Used to Reveal the Comet’s Water-Ice Cycle
It’s called the Visible, InfraRed and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer, or VIRTIS. And it’s one of 11 science instrument…
Here’s How Comet 67P Looked During Its Closest Approach to the Sun
It’s called perihelion. The time when Comet 67P makes its closest approach to the sun. ‘Close’ is relative…
The Good News Keeps Coming for Rosetta. Mission Extended to Sept 2016
Rosetta’s mission team has plenty to smile about this month. The Philae lander woke up for a seven-month…