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 Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on ...
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 ...
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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Rosetta spacecraft
But the Rosetta spacecraft revealed today that is not the case. The European Space Agency released the first images of Philae's bumpy landing today. Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander ...
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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 ...
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Rosetta: The dark side of the comet
but also to gather information from regions that are only temporarily shaded in certain images. Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Rosetta's Philae ...