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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Rosetta Spacecraft/Comet- Mashable


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Watch: Rosetta Spacecraft Meets Comet

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http://mashable.com/2014/08/06/watch-rosetta-spacecraft-meets-comet/

 

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Artist's impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimeko. The image is not to scale; the Rosetta spacecraft measures 32 m across including the solar arrays, while the comet nucleus is thought to be about 4 km wide.
Image: ESA–C. CARREAU/ATG MEDIALAB
Stan-schroeder
By Stan Schroeder
Here's a chance to witness a world first: the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to meet the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet today at 4AM ET.
Launched in March 2004, Rosetta completed several fly-bys of Earth and Mars and imaged two asteroids before entering hibernation in June 2011. It was awaken from its slumber on Jan. 20, 2014, to finally fulfill its destiny: a rendezvous with a comet, the first human-made spacecraft to do so.
If everything goes according to plan, Rosetta will escort the comet during its orbit around the sun and deploy a lander to its surface.
Watch the live stream of the mission below!
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