{"id":221994,"date":"2014-11-12T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"8f758f3ee0f038ea1dd01d0e0e15f5eb"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:50:00","slug":"farewell-rosetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221994","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Rosetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/11\/farewell_rosetta\/15042969-1-eng-GB\/Farewell_Rosetta_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta\u2019s lander Philae took this parting shot of its mothership shortly after separation. The image was taken with the lander\u2019s CIVA-P imaging system and captures &nbsp;one of Rosetta&#8217;s 14 metre-long solar arrays. It was stored onboard the lander until the radio link was established with Rosetta around two hours after separation, and then relayed to Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe lander separated from the orbiter at 09:03 GMT\/10:03 CET and is expected to touch down on Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko seven hours later. Confirmation of a successful touchdown is expected in a one-hour window centred on 16:02 GMT \/ 17:02 CET.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta and Philae had been riding through space together for more than 10 years. While Philae is set to become the first probe to land on a comet, Rosetta is already the first to rendezvous with a comet and follow it around the Sun. The information collected by Philae at one location on the surface will complement that collected by the Rosetta orbiter for the entire comet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the landing event live via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/rosetta\">www.esa.int\/rosetta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/11\/farewell_rosetta\/15042969-1-eng-GB\/Farewell_Rosetta_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta\u2019s lander Philae took this parting shot of its mothership shortly after separation. The image was taken with the lander\u2019s CIVA-P imaging system and captures &nbsp;one of Rosetta&#8217;s 14 metre-long solar arrays. It was stored onboard the lander until the radio link was established with Rosetta around two hours after separation, and then relayed to Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe lander separated from the orbiter at 09:03 GMT\/10:03 CET and is expected to touch down on Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko seven hours later. Confirmation of a successful touchdown is expected in a one-hour window centred on 16:02 GMT \/ 17:02 CET.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta and Philae had been riding through space together for more than 10 years. While Philae is set to become the first probe to land on a comet, Rosetta is already the first to rendezvous with a comet and follow it around the Sun. The information collected by Philae at one location on the surface will complement that collected by the Rosetta orbiter for the entire comet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the landing event live via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/rosetta\">www.esa.int\/rosetta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}