Rosetta
Rosetta Orbiter less than 500 Kilometers from Comet 67P Following Penultimate Trajectory Burn
The Rosetta comet chaser is currently less than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from its target destination, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko following today’s…
Getting to Know Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
We're finally getting to know the icy nucleus behind comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. For all the wonder that comets evoke, we on…
Rosetta Closing in on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after Decade Long Chase
ESA’s Rosetta Spacecraft nears final approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in late July 2014. This collage of imagery from Rosetta combines…
Rosetta’s Comet Is Too Hot For Complete Ice Surface, Spacecraft En Route Reveals
Anyone eager for a comet countdown? It's just a few days now until the Rosetta spacecraft arrives near Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko…
New Image of Rosetta’s Comet Reveals So Much More
WOW! We're really getting to the good stuff now! This is no computer-generated shape model, this is the real deal:…
Once Upon a Time There Was a Spacecraft Called Rosetta…
…and that time is now! ESA's Rosetta spacecraft is just over a mere two weeks away from its arrival at…
Rosetta Zooms Toward an Extraordinary Comet
I thought the photos earlier this week were amazing. This little movie, made of 36 'smoothed' or interpolated images of…
Rosetta’s Lander Facing An Unexpected Comet Shape: A Double Nucleus
A view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's nucleus, appearing to show a double binary. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA It appears…
Rosetta Watches Comet 67P Tumbling Through Space
This is really getting exciting! ESA's Rosetta spacecraft (and the piggybacked Philae lander) are in the home stretch to arrive at Comet…
How Big is Rosetta’s Comet?
Pretty darn big, I'd say. The illustration above shows the relative scale of the comet that ESA's Rosetta and Philae…