29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
.... Carbon dioxide is one of the main building blocks of a comet, but breaking it apart is tough, really tough because it is...that it would need to be traveling about as fast as a comet or asteroid travels through space, said Giapis. The current version ...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... Arecibo radar. Future critical resources It is important to remember that our solar system is still evolving. Asteroids and comets continue to impact planets and moons In 1976, the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) programme began collecting...
11 August 2015
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko puts on a show as captured by Rosetta camera OSIRIS
.... Rosetta’s OSIRIS camera has captured stunning images of a plume of dust and gas erupting from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it moves closer and closer to the sun. According to ESA, which is in charge of the Rosetta...
14 August 2015
Fun in the sun with Rosetta: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at perihelion
... things – including jets and other outburst events – happen to comets at perihelion (the point in their orbit at which they are...now published a mesmerising interactive viewer of the comet. The viewer in particular is a good demonstration of just how much...
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 ...has beautifully captured yet again, things change rapidly on a comet. Dramatic changes on the surface of what is known ...
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...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 ...
