dirkterrell
Thu Oct 16th, 2014, 09:42 AM
As many of you know, I work at a place that is involved in various spacecraft missions. We built the ultraviolet spectrograph on the Rosetta mission and the spacecraft is in orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (say that five times fast). I thought this was a really cool picture that was released on Tuesday. In about a month, a lander will make its way down to the surface of the comet, a first. It's good to see all of this cool stuff finally happening after so long. The mission was approved in 1993 and the launch was in 2004. Patience is a virtue with missions like this. (The spacecraft that we built will arrive at Pluto next summer and has a similar timeline as Rosetta.)
More about Rosetta here (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta) and here (http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/) if you're interested.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1410/ESA_Rosetta_Philae_CIVA_141007.png
More about Rosetta here (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta) and here (http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/) if you're interested.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1410/ESA_Rosetta_Philae_CIVA_141007.png