comet 67p
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The Rosetta Image Archive Is Now Complete And Freely Available, So You Can See A Comet Like Never Before
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was one for the ages, providing an unprecedented look at this oddly-shaped celestial object. The Rosetta probe captured nearly 100,000 images over the course of its mission, all of which are now freely available to the public in a single Rosetta archive.
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This Is The Last Thing The Rosetta Spacecraft Saw Before It Died
Image Cache: At 8:39PM AEST yesterday, a spacecraft weighing over 2000k with a wingspan half that of a Boeing 747 crashed gently into a comet’s surface, following 13 hours of free-fall. These, my friends, are the last, fleeting glimpses of Comet 67P that Rosetta managed to capture before its instruments went dead.
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How The Rosetta Spacecraft Will Crash Onto Comet 67P
In just seven days, the Rosetta spacecraft will smash into Comet 67P. A new visualisation shows how it will go down.
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Rosetta’s Comet Is Even Weirder Than We Thought
If you thought a comet that contains the building blocks of life and creates its own weather couldn’t get any more interesting, think again. Scientists finally have a theory as to why comet 67P — also known as Rosetta’s comet — has two distinct lobes. It’s actually two distinct comets, which break up, orbit one…