How we made history by landing on a comet?
On 12 November 2014, after a ten-year journey through the Solar System and over 500 million kilometres from home, Rosetta’s lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for the first time. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary feat, we celebrate by taking a look back over the mission’s highlights.
Rosetta was an ESA mission with contributions from its Member States and NASA. It studied Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for over two years, including delivering lander Philae to the comet’s surface. Philae was provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI.
Credits: ESA – European Space Agency
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Next step, sample return! 🙂
I’m always awestruck when images are strung together to form an animation of the craft swinging by an object. It’s amazing to try and comprehend that’s what it would look like if you were aboard. Well done ESA.
Science is magic. How come do people seek meaning to their existence other than this magic. Some fairy tales and historical myths. Need them.
Nice to see an ESA Mission to active Astroid P2017S5 or 358P.
Or to Ceres with an Rover.