Waspie_Dwarf Posted May 15, 2014 #1 Share Posted May 15, 2014 (edited) Rosetta’s target comet is becoming active 15 May 2014 The target of ESA’s Rosetta mission has started to reveal its true personality as a comet, its dusty veil clearly developing over the last six weeks.The sequence of images presented here of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko were taken between 27 March and 4 May, as the gap between craft and comet closed from around 5 million km to 2 million km. Read more... Edited August 1, 2014 by Waspie_Dwarf modified tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 3, 2014 Author #2 Share Posted June 3, 2014 ScienceCasts: Rosetta Comet Comes AliveVisit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.Later this year, Europe's Rosetta probe will orbit and land on comet 67P/Churyumov--Gerasimenko. New images of the comet show that it will be a lively place when Rosetta arrives.Credit: NASASource: NASA - Multimedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc14 Posted June 6, 2014 #3 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Rosetta spacecraft watches target comet come alive Later this year, the Rosetta spacecraft will orbit and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Here’s an update, in this new NASA video. This new ScienceCast gives you an updated look at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, target of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe. The spacecraft’s mission is to study the comet at close-range as it nears the sun and begins spewing jets of gas and dust that should evolve into a characteristic comet tail. That metamorphosis has already begun, as you’ll learn in this video. Claudia Alexander, project scientist for the U.S. Rosetta Project at JPL, says in the video: Comet 67P is coming alive. And it is even more active than I expected. Article continues here: http://earthsky.org/space/rosetta-spacecraft-watches-target-comet-come-alive?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=897a218d2e-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-897a218d2e-394012957 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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