Rosetta Selfie at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

[dirkterrell]

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 and here if you're interested.

[Grim2.0]

[Clovis]

Cool!!!

DIdn't know you were involved with the New Horizons mission! Hard to believe it's already been 8 1/2 years since launch.

[~Barn~]

Cool pic!