#philae

Once Upon a Time: The amazing adventures of #Rosetta and #Philae
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/12/23/once-upon-a-time-the-amazing-adventures-of-rosetta-and-philae

Watch the amazing cartoon adventures of Rosetta and Philae, now back-to-back in one special feature-length production. Find out how Rosetta and Philae first got inspired to visit a comet, and follow them on their incredible ten-year journey through the Solar System to their destination, flying around planets and past asteroids along the way. Watch as Philae tries to land on the comet and deals with some unexpected challenges! Learn about the fascinating observations that Rosetta made as she watched the comet change before her eyes as they got closer to the Sun and then further away again. Finally, wish Rosetta farewell, as she, too, finishes her amazing adventure on the surface of the comet. Keep watching for one last surprise! French version: Italian version: Spanish version: German version (...)

#Comet_67P #Comets #Fun_stuff #Outreach #video

Impressions of #Rosetta’s legacy
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/12/23/impressions-of-rosettas-legacy

In September–October 2016, over 200 people contributed to the #rosetta Legacy campaign, sharing stories, images, videos, creations and experiences to convey what the mission had meant to them. We decided to collect all contributions in an e-book, to keep a long-lasting record of the mission’s impact on a variety of public audiences. This publication presents a collection of these outstanding contributions and provides a taste of Rosetta’s legacy for fellow science communicators, scientists and engineers, educators, space enthusiasts – anyone who was fascinated by the mission. The e-book (pdf, 33MB) is available here. Thanks again to everyone who shared with us their impressions of the mission, and to all followers of Rosetta and #Philae (...)

#Comet_67P #Fun_stuff #Outreach ##rosettalegacy #comet #engagement #inspiration #outreach #philae

An encounter with #Klim_Churyumov
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/11/11/an-encounter-with-klim-churyumov

Two years ago this week, the entire world was getting ready for a historic endeavour in space: the first soft #Landing of a human-made probe on a #comet. On 12 November 2014, #Rosetta's lander #Philae landed on #Comet_67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, and while the landing didn’t go exactly as planned, Philae finally managed to secure itself to the nucleus and to conduct a series of scientific experiments in situ, while Rosetta kept observing the comet from a distance until the mission’s end last September. As communicators of ESA’s #Science missions, we gathered at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, to follow Philae’s landing and report it via ESA’s web and social media. During the week, ESOC was packed with scientists and engineers from the Rosetta and Philae (...)

#Comets #On_this_day ##CometLanding

#Rosetta #legacy winner announced
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/11/10/rosetta-legacy-winner-announced

Between 6 September and 7 October 2016, we collected 235 contributions to the #rosetta Legacy tumblr. A huge and sincere thank you to all participants who shared experiences, stories and images of how the mission of Rosetta and #Philae to #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has inspired their lives, including study and career choices, artistic practice and other creative endeavours! The authenticity and ingenuity of the submitted entries was overwhelming, and it has been challenging to pick one top prize winner (apologies for the delay!). One entry in particular caught the attention of the ESA judges for the combination of creative effort and motivation, so we selected Cristina Romero from Spain as the top prize winner. The prize consists in a special visit to #estec, ESA’s technical heart in (...)

#Fun_stuff #Outreach #competition

#Rosetta #legacy Highlights
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/29/rosetta-legacy-highlights

Over the past two years, the #rosetta mission has captured the imagination of many people worldwide, stimulating them to produce art and music, and to undertake other creative activities with friends and families – some even made further education or career choices inspired by the mission. This #video features a selection of contributions that were shared on the Rosetta Legacy tumblr before 21 September 2016: We also asked some of the contributors to tells us more about how the mission influenced their study, career and life in general: The Rosetta Legacy campaign will run until 7 October 2016. Share your stories, images and videos on ▻http://rosetta-legacy.tumblr.com and be in with a chance to win spot prizes (Rosetta and #Philae plush toys) and a visit at ESA’s ESTEC as top prize. 

#Audio #Comet_67P #Comets_and_culture #Fun_stuff #Landing #Outreach #Wake_up #citizens #comet #inspiration #outreach #philae

Beneath the surface of #Comet_67P
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/29/beneath-the-surface-of-comet-67p

While scientists and the public alike have been astounded by the unexpected shape of Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s nucleus, what lies beneath the surface is just as important scientifically. Comet interiors preserve a unique record from the formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago. Reaching that information was one of the key tasks of #Rosetta and #Philae. There were two principal experiments designed to ’see’ inside the comet’s nucleus: the COmet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radio-wave Transmission (CONSERT) instrument and the Radio #Science Investigation (RSI). Comets are known to be mixtures of dust and ice. Yet puzzlingly, measurements show that 67P/C-G’s density is much lower than ice. This means the comet has a high porosity, and could be an indicator that there (...)

#Instruments

#Science #highlights briefing starting soon
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/29/science-highlights-briefing-starting-soon

The #Rosetta #science highlight briefing at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, will start shortly. Tune in from 14:30 14:45 to the livestream viewer at #rosetta.esa.int or via ▻https://livestream.com/ESA/rosettagrandfinale or ESA’s Facebook page to follow dedicated talks celebrating the scientific highlights of the mission. Programme overview Matt Taylor (ESA’s Rosetta Project Scientist): Introduction Mohamed El-Maarry (OSIRIS team, University of Bern): Landscapes of Chury Valerie Ciarletti (CONSERT team, Universités Paris-Saclay): Getting the ground truth about the nucleus Thurid Mannel (MIDAS team, University of Graz): Dust under the microscope Jean-Baptiste Vincent (OSIRIS team, Max-Planck Institute for Solar Physics, Göttingen): Cometary activity and (...)

#Comet_67P #Comets #Instruments #Philae #comet #consert #MIDAS #osiris #rosina #rpc

Living with a comet: a CONSERT team perspective
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/28/living-with-a-comet-a-consert-team-perspective

Rosetta and #Philae were both equipped with the CONSERT radar experiment in order to bounce radio waves between the two to study the internal structure of the comet. Little did we know that this instrument would play a critical role in locating where the missing lander had bounced to after its unexpected landing on 12 November. Instrument Principal Investigator Wlodek Kofman shares how CONSERT’s modest measurements have yielded big results. It is good to remember that CONSERT, in the morning of 13 November 2014, provided the first estimation of where #philae had bounced to the previous day, based on the data collected overnight from 12 to 13 November. After that the #Rosetta project requested to add three additional #Operations of CONSERT in order to perform the triangulation and improve (...)

#Instruments #Science ##LivingWithAComet #rosetta #science

#CometWatch 18 September – a new view of #Rosetta’s impact site
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/23/cometwatch-18-september-a-new-view-of-rosettas-impact-site

As the #rosetta mission draws to a close next Friday, 30 September 2016, the CometWatch team here at ESA realised that this will be the last ’regular’ entry of this popular feature on the blog (*) through which we have shared a great deal of views of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken with Rosetta’s navigation camera (NAVCAM) since July 2014, shortly before Rosetta’s arrival at the #comet. As it happens, Rosetta recently took a new image of its final “landing” site on 67P/C-G, which we thought would make the perfect entry for this week’s CometWatch. The image was taken on 18 September 2016, when the spacecraft was 12.1 km from the centre of the comet. The image depicts the dust-covered terrains of #Ma'at, on the small comet lobe, where Rosetta is destined to make a controlled impact next (...)

#Images #Landing #Philae ##CometLanding #end_of_mission #landing_sites #navcam #osiris #philae

#Philae found !
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/05/philae-found

Less than a month before the end of the mission, #Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae #lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The #Images were taken on 2 September by the #osiris narrow-angle camera as the orbiter came within 2.7 km of the surface and clearly show the main body of the lander, along with two of its three legs. The images also provide proof of Philae’s orientation, making it clear why establishing communications was so difficult following its #Landing on 12 November 2014. “With only a month left of the Rosetta mission, we are so happy to have finally imaged Philae, and to see it in such amazing detail,” says Cecilia Tubiana of the OSIRIS camera team, the first person to see the images when they were downlinked from Rosetta (...)

##CometLanding #landing_day

What does the #Rosetta mission mean to you?
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/06/what-does-the-rosetta-mission-mean-to-you

To celebrate the success of #rosetta and to keep a long-lasting record of its impact on the world, we invite you to share your personal experiences and feelings about how the mission has influenced you. Perhaps you followed the mission via this blog, the news or other social media channels, and found a special link between the spacecraft visiting #Comet_67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and your own experience. Maybe you’ve been stimulated to create art, music, or a theatrical production, or perhaps you brought Rosetta and #Philae into your every day life at home through creative activities or games with your children. Or did you learn about the mission at school? Maybe you based a project on Rosetta and #philae’s adventures, or even made a further education or career choice inspired by the (...)

#Fun_stuff #Outreach #comet #competition #legacy #public

Celebrating two years at the comet
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/08/05/celebrating-two-years-at-the-comet

We’re celebrating #Rosetta’s two year anniversary at #Comet_67P/C-G (tomorrow!) with a new animation visualising the spacecraft’s incredible adventure flying alongside the comet. The animation begins on 31 July 2014, during #rosetta’s final approach to the comet after its ten-year journey through space. The spacecraft arrived at a distance of 100 km on 6 August whereupon it gradually approached the comet and entered initial mapping orbits that were needed to select a #Landing site for #philae. These observations also enabled the first comet #Science of the mission. The manoeuvres in the lead up to, during and after Philae’s deployment on 12 November are seen, before Rosetta settled into longer-term science orbits. In February and March 2015 the spacecraft made several flybys. One of the closest (...)

#Arrival #Operations ##CometLanding ##LivingWithAComet ##perihelion2015 ##WakeUpRosetta #orbit #timeline #trajectory

New Vangelis album inspired by ESA’s #Rosetta mission
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/07/29/new-vangelis-album-inspired-by-esas-rosetta-mission

Legendary composer and pioneer of electronic #music Vangelis has produced a brand new album, ‘Rosetta’, inspired by ESA’s #rosetta mission. The release of the album by Decca Records on 23 September coincides with the culmination of Rosetta’s 12-year mission to orbit and land its #Philae probe on #comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta is set to complete its journey in a controlled descent to the surface of the comet on 30 September. The story of this mission fuelled Vangelis’ long-held passion for space and inspired him to create his first new studio album in 18 years. Vangelis’ music is often linked to themes of science, history and exploration. Alongside his Academy Award-winning score for ‘Chariots of Fire’, he has written for the films including ‘Antarctica’, ‘1492: Conquest of Paradise’, (...)

#Comets_and_culture #Fun_stuff ##CometLanding ##perihelion2015 #lander #philae

Farewell, silent #Philae
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/07/26/farewell-silent-philae

Tomorrow, 27 July 2016 at 09:00 UTC / 11:00 CEST, the Electrical Support System Processor Unit (ESS) on #Rosetta will be switched off. The ESS is the interface used for communications between #rosetta and the #lander, #philae, which has remained silent since 9 July 2015. Switching off the ESS is part of the preparations for Rosetta’s end of mission. By the end of July 2016, the spacecraft will be some 520 million km from the Sun, and will start facing a significant loss of power – about 4W per day. In order to continue scientific #Operations over the next two months and to maximise their return, it became necessary to start reducing the power consumed by the non-essential payload components on board. No signal has been received by Rosetta from Philae since last July and earlier this year (...)

#Comet_67P

Artistic tributes to the #Rosetta mission
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/05/12/artistic-tributes-to-rosetta

Over the past two years, #rosetta has approached, reached and followed #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, collecting unprecedented images and other scientific data and dropping the #Philae lander on to its surface to perform in-situ measurements. While communicating the mission’s milestones, operational activities and scientific results via this blog and other social media channels, we have been pleased with the enormous impact that the mission had – and still has – on the public. Among the many comments, questions and feedback we have received over the months, there were also some special messages: they came from artists across the world, who had been especially impressed and inspired by the incredible adventure of Rosetta and #philae. They had spontaneously dedicated paintings, poems, (...)

#Comets_and_culture #Fun_stuff #art #comet #music #poetry #tribute

#osiris data release: close orbits and #lander delivery
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/05/04/osiris-data-release-close-orbits-and-lander-delivery

The #Rosetta Downlink and Archive group are pleased to announce the release of over 4000 OSIRIS #Images to the Archive Image Browser and the Planetary #Science Archive. An Archive #science Review was successfully held in February resulting the need for some improvements in the data and metadata being delivered by the #rosetta #Instruments, some of which have been taken into account in this OSIRIS release. The release covers the period 16 September – 19 December 2014 and includes narrow- and wide-angle camera images from Rosetta’s close observation phase when the spacecraft was just 8 km from the surface of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as well as pre- and post-landing imagery. They show the astonishing detail of the #comet surface at close range, including images used to help characterise (...)

#CometWatch #Landing ##CometLanding #landing_day #philae

#Philae status update
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/12/09/philae-status-update

Short video update from the #lander Control Center at DLR: #Videoupdate: the quest to re-establish contact with @Philae2014 continues... #lifeonacomet pic.twitter.com/0fp7Jrl8g2 — DLR - English (@DLR_en) December 9, 2015

#Landing #Operations #Rosetta ##CometLanding #philae #rosetta #trajectory

Reminiscing about the week of #comet #Landing
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/17/reminiscing-about-the-week-of-comet-landing

This time last year saw the end of an extraordinary week at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. Hundreds of journalists and reporters had gathered to witness an historic endeavour as on 12 November 2014 the #Rosetta orbiter deployed the lander #Philae on the surface of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In this blog post, some of our media friends reflect on the events of that memorable week and on one evening in particular. Late in the evening on 14 November, two days after #philae had landed (and bounced) on the comet, three social-media eye-witnesses joined a small team of ESA communicators sitting just outside the mission control room at #esoc. Keeping an eye on Philae as it completed its scientific operations, they tweeted live what could have been the (...)

#Fun_stuff ##CometLanding #landing #rosetta

#video: #Science highlights one year since comet landing
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/13/video-science-highlights-one-year-since-comet-landing

This film covers the most recent #science news from the #Rosetta mission, as well as selected scientific highlights from the last year. 

#Comet_67P #Comets #Instruments #Philae #instruments #philae #rosetta

#Rosetta and #Philae : one year since #Landing on a #comet
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/12/rosetta-and-philae-one-year-since-landing-on-a-comet

One year since #philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the #lander, while also looking ahead to next year’s grand finale: making a controlled impact of the #rosetta orbiter on the comet. This article is mirrored from the main ESA web portal. Rosetta arrived at #Comet_67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014, and after an initial survey and selection of a landing site, Philae was delivered to the surface on 12 November. After touching down in the Agilkia region as planned, Philae did not secure itself to the comet, and it bounced to a new location in Abydos. Its flight across the surface is depicted in a new animation, using data collected by Rosetta and Philae to reconstruct the lander’s rotation and attitude (Ed’s note: more (...)

#Images #Instruments #Operations #Science ##CometLanding #instruments #science #trajectory

The sound of #Philae conducting #Science
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/12/the-sound-of-philae-conducting-science

Philae’s SESAME-CASSE ‘listened’ to the #lander’s MUPUS instrument hammer the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last November. Martin Knapmeyer from the German Aerospace Centre, DLR, tells us more. SESAME-CASSE is the Cometary Acoustic Surface Sounding Experiment located in the lander’s feet. It takes the form of three accelerometers, each of which records acceleration in three directions (one vertical and two horizontal). MUPUS comprises the Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Subsurface #science – including the MUPUS penetrator that was activated towards the end of #philae’s first science sequence on 14 November 2014. It was recognized early in the preparation of both experiments that the hammering mechanism of MUPUS, which drives a thermal probe into the comet’s surface, would (...)

#Comets #Instruments #Operations ##CometLanding #instruments #landing_day

Astronomy & Astrophysics: #Rosetta special issue
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/02/astronomy-astrophysics-rosetta-special-issue

A special issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics was published online on Friday, featuring 46 articles based on data collected by Rosetta and #Philae in the mission’s first year at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Topics covered include the comet’s shape and formation theories, the evolution and nature of its activity, the composition of the coma, and the coma’s interaction with the solar wind. For a full list of contents, click here. Many of these papers were published over the past few months, and several were already covered by news articles here on the ESA blog and/or the main ESA web portal; you can find the news items linked from the table of contents by clicking on the ‘press release’ button.      

#Science #rosetta #science

The story behind the #Rosetta ‘claymation’
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/10/27/the-story-behind-the-rosetta-claymation

Earlier this month, the Royal Observatory Greenwich, UK, released a wonderful educational #video about the #rosetta Mission using ‘claymation’ – animated clay figures. It was a big hit with the Rosetta team and so we caught up with Elizabeth Avery, senior manager of Astronomy Education at the ROG and one of the minds behind the video, to learn more about how it was put together. The same team at the ROG has also since released a complementary video called Space Rocks, about asteroids, #Comets, meteors, and meteorites. You can watch both videos as part of this post. What made you choose to focus on the Rosetta mission for this video? We have a very long list of things we would love to make videos about, so it is always a huge challenge to choose just one topic. When we were first thinking of (...)

#Fun_stuff #Landing #Philae #Science ##CometLanding #comet #philae #science

Understanding #Philae’s #wake-up: behind the scenes with the Philae team
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/09/11/understanding-philaes-wake-up-behind-the-scenes-with-the-philae-team

Since #Rosetta’s #lander Philae first woke up from hibernation and called ‘home’ on 13 June, the teams at the Lander Control Center (LCC – DLR), the Science #Operations and Navigation Center (SONC – CNES), the Max-Planck Institute (MPS – Göttingen) and the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (Wigner Research Centre for Physics – Budapest) have been working with ESA’s #rosetta Mission Operations Centre (RMOC – ESOC) and the Rosetta Science Ground Segment (RSGS – ESAC), and in close cooperation with the Philae and Rosetta scientists, to establish regular and predictable contacts with Philae, and to resume scientific measurements. This blog post has been written by Koen Geurts, Philae technical manager, and Cinzia Fantinati, Philae operations manager (both from the LCC at DLR), and gives a (...)

#Comet_67P #Instruments #Landing ##CometLanding #instruments #trajectory

Celebrating a year at the #comet
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/08/06/celebrating-a-year-at-the-comet

This article is mirrored from the main ESA Web Portal ESA’s #Rosetta mission today celebrates one year at #Comet_67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, with its closest approach to the Sun now just one week away. It’s been a long but exciting journey for #rosetta since its launch in 2004, featuring Earth, Mars and two asteroid flybys before arriving at its ultimate destination on 6 August 2014. Over the following months, the mission became the first ever to orbit a comet and the first to soft land a probe – #Philae – on its surface. The mission teams have had to overcome many challenges in learning to fly in an unpredictable and sometimes inhospitable environment, and the spacecraft has returned a wealth of outstanding scientific data from this intriguing comet, spanning its interior, the dramatic surface (...)

#Arrival #Comets #CometWatch #Images #Instruments #media #On_this_day #Operations #Science ##CometLanding ##CometWatch ##RosettaAreWeThereYet ##WakeUpRosetta #flyby #instruments #lander #landing_day #philae #science #trajectory #wake-up