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Highlights From ESA's Rosetta Mission Landing On Comet 67P
The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...
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Europe makes history successfully landing spacecraft on a comet, a ten year precision cosmic chase
During the lander's descent, scientists were limited to watch because the 500m kilometers distance from Earth made it impossible to send instructions in real time. A European spacecraft made ...
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Scientists Have Incredible Hopes For What They Can Find On This Comet — But They're Running Out Of Time
When the European Space Agency got word from their comet lander that it had bounced its way into a dark corner of the comet, they knew it meant a race against the clock. Timing is an issue now ...
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Rosetta spacecraft
The European Space Agency released the first images of Philae's bumpy landing today. Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until ...
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Roset­ta
The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...
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Roset­ta
DLR played a major role in the construction of the lander and operated the Lander Control Center (LCC), from where the difficult task of landing on the comet on 12 November 2014 – a feat never before ...
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Highlights From ESA's Rosetta Mission Landing On Comet 67P
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