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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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How Scientists Found The Tiny Philae Lander On A Giant Comet
In the shadow of a cliff on an icy rock 700 million kilometres from Earth, a washing machine-sized robot by the name of Philae has spent the last two years in hibernation. We’d already given up hope of speaking with humanity’s first and only comet lander ever again, and time was running out to catch…
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Rosetta’s Comet Looks Even Weirder When It’s Backlit By The Sun
In its ongoing exploration of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the Rosetta spacecraft captured this stunning silhouette of the two-lobed mass from a distance of 329km. Wow.
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Here’s Our First Glimpse Of The Rosetta Comet’s Dark Side
The Rosetta spacecraft has taken hundreds of stunning photographs of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko over the past year, but a portion of the comet was obscured due to its odd seasonal shifts. Now, thanks to a special camera aboard Rosetta, scientists have created a sketch of its elusive dark side.