Rosetta-Philae Probe: How Humans Touched Down on a Comet for the First Time
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
Historic First Landing on a Comet: How Philae Redefined Space Exploration
Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...
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It's the 10-year anniversary of the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 billion-year-old comet
Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 billion-year-old solar system relic. The principal goals of the mission were to study ...
Philae's extraordinary comet landing relived
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
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OTD In Space - November 12: Philae Spacecraft Gets Lost On Comet
On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...
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Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguise
These include the "rubber ducky" Comet 67P, which ESA's Rosetta mission studied ... images to fine-tune the spacecraft's planned path, Fornasier stumbled upon unpublished photos.
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Ten years ago: Philae becomes first probe to land on a comet
It travelled for ten years, including a 'hibernation phase' from June 2011 to January 2014, before finally reaching its target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ... Rosetta was placed on the necessary ...