Video report : #Rosetta orbiter #Science
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/23/video-report-rosetta-orbiter-science
It is almost a year since the #rosetta spacecraft began orbiting #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014. The orbiter’s eleven #Instruments are studying the comet at different wavelengths - infrared, ultraviolet, microwave and radio – as well as gathering high-resolution #Images and information about its shape, density, temperature and chemical composition. This video outlines the mission’s scientific highlights so far – “a geologist’s playground” - and some of the latest #science from three of the orbiter’s #instruments: the Osiris camera, the microwave MIRO instrument and VIRTIS (visible and infrared thermal imaging spectrometer), which is studying the comet’s nucleus. It contains footage from the first Rosetta science workshop, which was recently held in Rome, as well as the Max Planck (...)