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Comet chaser and lander
The first space mission ever to land on a comet, European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft is on its way to rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. When the craft reaches its target in 2014 the lander will touch down on the comet surface and the main spacecraft will follow the comet for many months as it heads towards the Sun. Ingenious instruments on board Rosetta will ‘smell’ the comet for different substances, analysing samples that have been ‘cooked’ in a set of miniature ovens. Rosetta will help us to understand if life on Earth began with the help of ‘comet seeding’.
The Rosetta mission will achieve many historic firsts:
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Rosetta will be the first spacecraft to orbit a comet’s nucleus.·
It will be the first spacecraft to fly alongside a comet as it heads towards the inner Solar System.·
Rosetta will be the first spacecraft to examine from close proximity how a frozen comet is transformed by the warmth of the Sun.·
Shortly after its arrival at the comet, the Rosetta lander will make the first controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus.Please search and read other entry on Rosetta in this blog.
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