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The Last Thing Comet Probe Rosetta Saw
Robotic comet explorer Rosetta sent home a last-gasp photo of her target's rocky facade before crashing into its surface to end a 12-year deep-space odyssey, ground controllers said Thursday.
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Scientists Captured Incredible Photographic Proof Of A Landslide On A Comet
It was 3 a.m., and astronomer Maurizio Pajola had been up for hours looking through images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft of its dumpy, duck-shaped comet. Pajola had just started a new job studying Mars' moon Phobos at NASA's Ames Research Center. The only time he could continue this work on the Rosetta mission was the middle of the night.
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Don't Miss The Final Image That Rosetta Captured
A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agencys (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before ending its remarkable 12-year journey with crash-landing on the comets surface on Friday.
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Rosetta Crash-Lands on Comet, Ending 12-Year Space Mission
The craft had been programmed for a "controlled impact", at a human walking pace of about 90cm per second.
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Rosetta Crash-Lands On Comet, Ending 12-Year Space Mission
Europe's pioneering Rosetta spacecraft concluded a 12-year odyssey with a controlled crash-landing Friday onto the comet it has orbited and probed for two years to unravel the secrets of the Solar System's birth, mission controllers said.
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Rosetta Sent On Collision Course To Surface Of Comet
European scientists have sent the Rosetta spacecraft on its final, one-way journey to the surface of a comet, after a historic 12-year mission to discover the secrets of the dusty, icy bodies.
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Rosetta: The End of a Space Odyssey
After dispatching the final data to Earth, Rosetta's signal will simply vanish from ground control screens .
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Rosetta: The End Of A Space Odyssey
Europe's trailblazing deep-space comet exploration for clues to the origins of the Solar System ends Friday with the Rosetta orbiter joining robot lab Philae on the iceball's dusty surface for eternity.
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Europe's Rosetta to Wave Goodbye in Crash-Landing on Comet
In the final hours of its controlled descent on September 30, Rosetta will be able to take close-up pictures of the comet.
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ESA's Rosetta Spacecraft Spots Philae Comet Lander That Was Thought Lost Forever
The agency released a photo of the washing machine-sized robot lab on the comet's rough surface.
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Missing Comet Lander Philae Spotted At Last: ESA
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has finally spotted its tiny lander Philae, thought to be lost forever, stuck in a ditch on the surface of a comet hurtling through space, ground controllers said Monday.
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Rosetta, Philae to Reunite on Comet for September 30 Mission End
"The mission is coming to an end as a result of the spacecraft's ever-increasing distance from the Sun and Earth", said a statement by the ESA.
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Rosetta Comet Orbiter Comes Back After 'Dramatic' Silence
"We lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday evening for nearly 24 hours," mission manager Patrick Martin said on ESA's Rosetta blog.
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Rosetta Spacecraft Finds Key Building Blocks for Life in a Comet
The craft made detections of glycine, used by living organisms to make proteins, in the cloud of gas and dust surrounding Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Scientists Bid Comet Lander Philae Farewell After Radio Silence
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) said on Friday it suspects Philae is now covered in dust and too cold to operate.
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The Last Thing Comet Probe Rosetta Saw
Robotic comet explorer Rosetta sent home a last-gasp photo of her target's rocky facade before crashing into its surface to end a 12-year deep-space odyssey, ground controllers said Thursday.
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Scientists Captured Incredible Photographic Proof Of A Landslide On A Comet
It was 3 a.m., and astronomer Maurizio Pajola had been up for hours looking through images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft of its dumpy, duck-shaped comet. Pajola had just started a new job studying Mars' moon Phobos at NASA's Ames Research Center. The only time he could continue this work on the Rosetta mission was the middle of the night.
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Don't Miss The Final Image That Rosetta Captured
A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agencys (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before ending its remarkable 12-year journey with crash-landing on the comets surface on Friday.
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Rosetta Crash-Lands on Comet, Ending 12-Year Space Mission
The craft had been programmed for a "controlled impact", at a human walking pace of about 90cm per second.
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Rosetta Crash-Lands On Comet, Ending 12-Year Space Mission
Europe's pioneering Rosetta spacecraft concluded a 12-year odyssey with a controlled crash-landing Friday onto the comet it has orbited and probed for two years to unravel the secrets of the Solar System's birth, mission controllers said.
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Rosetta Sent On Collision Course To Surface Of Comet
European scientists have sent the Rosetta spacecraft on its final, one-way journey to the surface of a comet, after a historic 12-year mission to discover the secrets of the dusty, icy bodies.
-
Rosetta: The End of a Space Odyssey
After dispatching the final data to Earth, Rosetta's signal will simply vanish from ground control screens .
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Rosetta: The End Of A Space Odyssey
Europe's trailblazing deep-space comet exploration for clues to the origins of the Solar System ends Friday with the Rosetta orbiter joining robot lab Philae on the iceball's dusty surface for eternity.
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Europe's Rosetta to Wave Goodbye in Crash-Landing on Comet
In the final hours of its controlled descent on September 30, Rosetta will be able to take close-up pictures of the comet.
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ESA's Rosetta Spacecraft Spots Philae Comet Lander That Was Thought Lost Forever
The agency released a photo of the washing machine-sized robot lab on the comet's rough surface.
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Missing Comet Lander Philae Spotted At Last: ESA
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has finally spotted its tiny lander Philae, thought to be lost forever, stuck in a ditch on the surface of a comet hurtling through space, ground controllers said Monday.
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Rosetta, Philae to Reunite on Comet for September 30 Mission End
"The mission is coming to an end as a result of the spacecraft's ever-increasing distance from the Sun and Earth", said a statement by the ESA.
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Rosetta Comet Orbiter Comes Back After 'Dramatic' Silence
"We lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday evening for nearly 24 hours," mission manager Patrick Martin said on ESA's Rosetta blog.
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Rosetta Spacecraft Finds Key Building Blocks for Life in a Comet
The craft made detections of glycine, used by living organisms to make proteins, in the cloud of gas and dust surrounding Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Scientists Bid Comet Lander Philae Farewell After Radio Silence
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) said on Friday it suspects Philae is now covered in dust and too cold to operate.
