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 ...
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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Rosetta probe landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko scheduled
The unmanned probe Rosetta will release the 100-kilogram lander Philae, shown in this artist's conception, at 0835 GMT (3:35 ET) on Nov. 12. (J. Huart/ESA; ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD ...
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Rosetta spacecraft
Rosetta, the first comet orbiter, shares final moments before crashing The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic, 12-year cruise through the cosmos on Friday after two years of orbit around Comet ...
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Scientists hail scientific legacy of comet-chasing Rosetta probe on 10th anniversary
A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...
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It took over 2 years for this spaceship to hurdle around a comet
An curved arrow pointing right. The Rosetta spacecraft has been trailing a comet for the last two and a half years, on a slow, spinning ride to it's ultimate destruction. But science thanks you ...
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What Went Wrong at Comet 67P? (Inside the Rosetta-Philae Mission)
The Rosetta-Philae mission aimed to explore comet 67P in detail, but unexpected challenges changed the course of its success. From the initial landing issues to other technical troubles, explore what ...
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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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Mission Complete: Rosetta says farewell with comet crash-landing
Artist's impression of Rosetta spacecraft shortly before hitting ... such as getting a spacecraft into orbit around a comet and the unprecedented landing of a probe on the surface.
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Oxygen discovered on Rosetta comet, stunning scientists
Space Tablets About Us Sign up for our daily newsletter Subscribe About BGR Advertising Contact Us TRENDING: iOS 18 beta WWDC 2024 New on ... Oxygen discovered on Rosetta comet, stunning ...
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 ...
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Europe makes history successfully landing spacecraft on a comet, a ten year precision cosmic chase
The landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko required ... countdown that began when Philae dropped from the agency's Rosetta space probe as both it and the comet hurtled through space at 66,000 ...