21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
.../Churymov-Gerasimenko became the missions target in the end. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on 13 December when the comet was 12 million kilometres (7.4 million miles) from Earth. In the visible-light image above, the...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... in 1993. The target was a small, estimated 1-2 km radius object lost in the enormous distances of deep space, called comet 46P/Wirtanen. After completing the mission’s conceptual design in early 1996, ESOC began the preparation of the ground segment...
