Caporegime
If I recall correctly isn't Rosetta due to make it's comet landing soon?
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The rest of our look at Mars:
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The multiple star system XZ Tauri blowing a hot bubble of gas into the surrounding space:
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A sounding rocket has detected a surplus of infrared light in the dark space between galaxies:
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Origins of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the Kuiper Belt:
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I have some very basic/stupid questions about Rosetta that I’m hoping someone can help me answer:
Rosetta’s orbit of the comet is triangular, is this not requiring the use of loads of fuel in order to carry out?
Am I right in thinking that the comet does have some gravitational pull which allows Rosetta to orbit it?
If there’s no atmosphere on the comet, how is the probe going to ‘stick’ to it? I don’t really understand how you can land on something like this. Is there gravity on it?
I know these are probably very stupid but I just don’t understand it. Thanks
Rosetta’s orbit of the comet is triangular, is this not requiring the use of loads of fuel in order to carry out?
Am I right in thinking that the comet does have some gravitational pull which allows Rosetta to orbit it?
If there’s no atmosphere on the comet, how is the probe going to ‘stick’ to it? I don’t really understand how you can land on something like this. Is there gravity on it?
I know these are probably very stupid but I just don’t understand it. Thanks
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Some good shots from Rosetta's navigation camera at 10km:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Highlights/Top_10_at_10_km
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Really hoping they nail the landing!
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Highlights/Top_10_at_10_km
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Really hoping they nail the landing!
Livestream will be online tomorrow:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Live_updates_Rosetta_mission_comet_landing
http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Live_updates_Rosetta_mission_comet_landing
http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding
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Looks like they have done it.
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The comet "Sings" too.
Utter wow!
Like maybe the building blocks of life.