On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. Rosetta launched in 2004 and spent 10 years chasing down Comet 67P, a rubber-duck-shaped space rock ...
Europe's comet-chasing space probe Rosetta dipped out of orbit Friday with a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it's been following for more than a decade. Its final radio ...
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A Decade of The First Photograph of a Human-Made Object on a Six-Billion-Year-Old Comet
The beauty of photography is that we get to relive the ‘firsts’ and important images of an event that will alter and change our history over and over. The photographs captured by Philae, the lander of ...
In June 2011, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft reached a dead end as it approached about 500 million miles away from the sun, near Jupiter’s orbit where the solar-powered craft ...
After intercepting the speeding comet, a wealth of findings. The photo recently released by ESA and taken by OSIRIS wide-angle camera on the Rosetta space probe, Nov. 22, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS/AP ...
BERLIN, Germany -- Europe's comet-chasing space probe Rosetta performed its final task Friday, dipping out of orbit for a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it's been following ...
A comet-chasing space probe woke up from hibernation on Monday, after scientists waited an agonizing several hours for the craft’s signal to reach earth. The probe Rosetta was switched back on at 11 a ...
LONDON (CNN) — The Rosetta mission to land a probe on Comet 67P is past the point of no return, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday. “There is no going back now,” the agency said ...
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