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Flight director explains how Rosetta will descend to the comet’s surface

29 September 2016 Astronomy Now

Rosetta flight director Andrea Accomazzo tells us in this video interview how the Rosetta spacecraft will make its final plunge towards the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

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Philae returns all stored science data before falling silent

15 November 2014 William Harwood

Europe’s Philae lander transmitted all its stored science data from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko before falling silent as battery power failed.

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  • Webb spots vast plume of water vapor spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus
    1 June 2023
  • Seeing the universe in X-rays, optical and infrared, all at once
    26 May 2023
  • A record-setting explosion as a supermassive black hole gorges on gas
    15 May 2023
  • Globular cluster mystery may be explained by short-lived ultra-massive suns
    13 May 2023
  • Jammed radar boom on Jupiter-bound Juice probe finally freed
    12 May 2023
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