Rosetta: 100 kilometres to 'touchdown'
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - 11:02
in Astronomy & Space
The Rosetta spacecraft is approaching just 100 kilometres from its target comet, "Chury", today. After a ten-year journey, the Bernese instrument, ROSINA, will soon "smell" the first molecules of the comet's gas tail.
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