Moonrise over the Pacific Ocean,Rosetta spacecraft image. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft was launched in March 2004 on a 10 year mission to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will rendezvous with the comet in mid 2014. It is the first mission designed to land on a comet. Rosetta is carrying instruments to map the comet's surface and probe its core,as well as the Philae lander. Philae will perform detailed analysis of the comet's surface,giving an insight into conditions during the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago. This image was obtained during Rosetta's first Earth flyby on 9th March 2005 | |
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