comet 67p

  • This Is The Last Thing The Rosetta Spacecraft Saw Before It Died

    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.


  • Rosetta’s Comet Is Even Weirder Than We Thought

    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…