Illustration of Rosetta spacecraft impacting on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This comet is around 3.5 by 4 kilometres. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft was launched in March 2004 on a 10 year mission to reach this comet. It entered orbit on 6 August 2014 at a point in the comet's orbit beyond the orbit of Mars. On the 30th September 2016 the mission will come to an end when the spacecraft makes a controlled impact on the comet. The first mission designed to land on a comet,Rosetta is carried instruments and a lander to map and study the comet's surface and core | |
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