02 December 2014
Rosetta comet success SpaceShipTwo
... 30-minute bounce as it landed on the surface of Comet 67P, Philae, the little 100kg sub-probe to ESA’s...what turned out to be a relatively hard rock and ice surface of the comet. Battery power was soon lost because of its awkward angle and position in...
06 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
...The Rosetta mission’s latest discoveries on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are part of a lengthy...This week, scientists said that alien microbial life could be present on the comet, as evidenced by its organic-rich black crust. It should be noted that...
December 2014
The vanity of machines
I was here – Rosetta’s self-portrait as it passes Mars, one of four planetary gravity assists needed to boost the spacecraft onto the trajectory to meet its target, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
25 September 2015
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s Imhotep region: conditions change rapidly on comet’s surface
...speculate, before the European Space Agency’s historic Rosetta mission and comet landing, that is. Now we have facts to back this up....and high priest of the sun god Ra) of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were recently recorded by Rosetta. New features...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
...traces of the chemical compound on the famous comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) that was the target of the Rosetta mission...Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, have calculated that comets like 67P could have delivered up to 50 gigatonnes of...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
... for the two short fly-bys of asteroids Steins in 2008 and Lutetia in 2010. The new target - Comet 67P Churyumov- Gerasimenko imaged from ground telescopes in 2003. All these activities kept us busy for months of preparation...
