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 ...
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Scientists hail scientific legacy of comet-chasing Rosetta probe on 10th anniversary
Just a few hours after the spacecraft arrived, scientists celebrated the first close-up photos of the comet radioed home by ...
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 ...
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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Europe makes history successfully landing spacecraft on a comet, a ten year precision cosmic chase
But thrusters that were meant to push the lander, called Philae, onto the surface, and harpoons that would have anchored it to the comet failed to deploy properly. Initial data from the spacecraft ...
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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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Ten years ago: Philae becomes first probe to land on a comet
For some, it feels like just yesterday; for others, it's like an entire era of comet research. Ten years ago, on 12 November 2014, the Philae lander made the first-ever landing on a comet in the ...
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Rosetta spacecraft
Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until its first bounce landing. The European Space Agency captured the “song” of the ...