Rosetta: studying comets

Taller than Japan’s Mount Fuji, comet 67P is being studied in detail by the orbiter. The…

Earth from Space: Dead Sea

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The lowest…

Rosetta: landing on a comet

Rosetta will release its Philae lander when approximately 22 kilometres from the centre of the comet.…

Rosetta: studying comets

Taller than Japan’s Mount Fuji, comet 67P is being studied in detail by the orbiter. The…

Earth from Space: Dead Sea

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The lowest…

How Rosetta deploys Philae

Rosetta’s deployment of Philae with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in the background. The animation begins with Philae still…

Philae’s descent: closing in on the landing site

The final steps of Philae’s descent towards Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014, as seen by…

Demonstrating Rosetta’s Philae lander on the Space Station

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst performs a demonstration of how ESA’s Rosetta mission will attempt to put…

Installing Hydra

The Hydra – short for Hydraulic Multi-axis Shaker – at ESA’s technology centre simulates the extreme…

Installing Hydra

The Hydra – short for Hydraulic Multi-axis Shaker – at ESA’s technology centre simulates the extreme…