Rosetta Probe Will Spiral In To Comet

Monday, August 4, 2014 - 12:30 in Astronomy & Space

This ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will overtake comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Rosetta, then corkscrew downard from around 100 km to 25-30 km where mapping will determine the target for the mission’s Philae lander.animation is not to scale.

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