{"id":231522,"date":"2015-07-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"306c77c329ab7b94fa1c5d1d261981f9"},"modified":"2015-07-21T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T22:00:00","slug":"rosetta-orbiter-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=231522","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta orbiter science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/07\/rosetta_orbiter_science\/15476778-3-eng-GB\/Rosetta_Orbiter_Science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is almost a year since the Rosetta spacecraft began orbiting comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014. The orbiter\u2019s eleven instruments are studying the comet at different wavelengths &#8211; infrared, ultraviolet, microwave and radio \u2013 as well as gathering high-resolution images and information about its shape, density, temperature and chemical composition.<br \/>\nThis video outlines the mission\u2019s scientific highlights so far \u2013 \u201ca geologist\u2019s playground\u201d &#8211; and some of the latest science from three of the orbiter\u2019s instruments: the Osiris camera, the microwave MIRO instrument and VIRTIS (visible and infrared thermal imaging spectrometer), which is studying the comet\u2019s nucleus.<br \/>\nIt contains footage from the first Rosetta science workshop, which was recently held in Rome, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany \u2013 where a copy of Osiris is maintained in a vacuum chamber to test commands.<br \/>Includes interviews with Nicholas Thomas, co-investigator of the Osiris instrument; Fabrizio Cappacioni, principal investigator VIRTIS; Sam Gulkis, principal investigator MIRO; and Holger Sierks, principal investigator OSIRIS.<\/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\/videos\/2015\/07\/rosetta_orbiter_science\/15476778-3-eng-GB\/Rosetta_Orbiter_Science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is almost a year since the Rosetta spacecraft began orbiting comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014. The orbiter\u2019s eleven instruments are studying the comet at different wavelengths &#8211; infrared, ultraviolet, microwave and radio \u2013 as well as gathering high-resolution images and information about its shape, density, temperature and chemical composition.<br \/>\nThis video outlines the mission\u2019s scientific highlights so far \u2013 \u201ca geologist\u2019s playground\u201d &#8211; and some of the latest science from three of the orbiter\u2019s instruments: the Osiris camera, the microwave MIRO instrument and VIRTIS (visible and infrared thermal imaging spectrometer), which is studying the comet\u2019s nucleus.<br \/>\nIt contains footage from the first Rosetta science workshop, which was recently held in Rome, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany \u2013 where a copy of Osiris is maintained in a vacuum chamber to test commands.<br \/>Includes interviews with Nicholas Thomas, co-investigator of the Osiris instrument; Fabrizio Cappacioni, principal investigator VIRTIS; Sam Gulkis, principal investigator MIRO; and Holger Sierks, principal investigator OSIRIS.<\/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-231522","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\/231522","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=231522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231522\/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=231522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}