'Standing on a comet': Rosetta mission will contribute to space weather research
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 09:20
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —A comet-bound spacecraft that's been in sleep mode for more than two years is scheduled to wake up on the morning of Jan. 20—beginning the home stretch of its decade-long journey to a mile-wide ball of rock, dust and ice.