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