Rosetta mission
If We Want to Visit More Asteroids, We Need to Let the Spacecraft Think for Themselves
Missions to asteroids have been on a tear recently. Visits by Rosetta, Osirix-REX, and Hayabusa2 have all visited small bodies…
Even Comets Can Have Auroras. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Does
The ESA's Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended four years ago. On September 30th 2016 the spacecraft was directed into…
Rosetta Saw Collapsing Cliffs and Other Changes on 67P During its Mission
It seems that comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is not the stoic, unchanging Solar System traveller that it might seem to be. Scientists…
New Image Shows the Rugged Landscape of Comet 67P
Thanks to an amateur astronomer, the latest image to come from the Rosetta mission provides of glimpse of the surface…
This was the Snowstorm Rosetta Saw When it Got 79 km Away From Comet 67P
The ESA recently released images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft when it witnessed a "snowstorm" while making a flyby of…
Here’s Something We Never Thought We’d See on a Comet: Shifting Dunes
The Rosetta mission’s close-up views of the curiously-shaped Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko have already changed some long-held ideas about comets. But here’s…
Goodbye Forever Philae; We Hardly Knew Ye
You can’t say they didn’t try, but the news is sad nonetheless. ESA announced the mission for the Philae lander…