#Rosetta’s last words: #Science descending to a #comet
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/12/15/rosettas-last-words-science-descending-to-a-comet
On 30 September 2016, at 11:19:37 UT in ESA’s mission control, #rosetta’s signal flat-lined, confirming that the spacecraft had completed its incredible mission on the surface of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko some 40 minutes earlier and 720 million km from Earth. Rosetta was working up to the very end, collecting reams of #science data as it descended towards a region of pits in the Ma’at region on the comet’s ‘head’. Before we ‘retire’ the blog, we wanted to catch up with the instrument teams following this grand finale to find out how their #Instruments performed and if there were any surprises in Rosetta’s last ‘words’ from the comet. First a reminder of the impact site: Rosetta was targeting a point within a 700 x 500 m ellipse, between two pits in the Ma’at region. Reconstruction of the (...)
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