Saturday 22 November 2014

New data from Rosetta

Rosetta is a spacecraft and it's the firt mission to orbit and land on a comet : 67P/Tchourioumov-Guérassimenko. Rosetta was built in 1993, it was launched on March 2nd 2004. In 2010, Rosetta is left in abeyance and reactivated in January 2014. In August 16th 2014, it begins its operations.
The November 12th 2014 is an historic day : Rosetta realeases the atterisseur Philae who settles on the comet (more than 10 years after the launch). Philae has to analyze the composition of the ground, the temperature... The end of the mission is planed in December 2015.

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