Rosetta-Philae Probe: How Humans Touched Down on a Comet for the First Time
"Our ambitious Rosetta mission has secured a place in the history books: not only is it the first to rendezvous with and ...
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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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Scientists hail scientific legacy of comet-chasing Rosetta probe on 10th anniversary
To do so, the mission's goal was to study an otherwise-unremarkable comet called Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a ...
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
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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 ...