{"id":242684,"date":"2016-09-02T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ff96f9cf9041c4f0892c43fc9155b3bc"},"modified":"2016-09-02T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T06:58:00","slug":"rosetta-the-end-is-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242684","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta:  the end is in sight"},"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\/2016\/09\/rosetta_the_end_is_in_sight\/16106931-2-eng-GB\/Rosetta_the_end_is_in_sight_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 35.45pt 70.85pt 106.3pt 5.0cm 177.15pt 212.6pt 248.05pt 283.45pt 318.9pt 354.35pt 389.75pt 425.2pt 460.65pt;\">\nIt is just over two years since Rosetta made its rendezvous with comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and now the end of the mission is in sight.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nAs the spacecraft and the comet head towards Jupiter, Rosetta is getting spectacularly close to the surface &#8211; up to three kilometres so far &#8211; allowing detailed views of the comet\u2019s cliffs, boulders and plains, as well observing changes since the orbiter\u2019s arrival. A ten tonne boulder, for instance, has moved by 140 metres, most likely due to activity during perihelion, when the comet was at its closest point to the Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nThis film provides an overview of recent events in preparation for the mission\u2019s end on 30 September, when Rosetta will spiral down to a landing site on the head of the duck shaped comet, performing science and taking images along the way.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nIt includes interviews with Carsten G\u00dcTTLER, OSIRIS camera scientist, ESA (English and German); Fabrizzio CAPACCIONI, VIRTIS instrument Principal Investigator (English); Claire VALLAT, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) liaison scientist, ESA (English and French)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/09\/rosetta_the_end_is_in_sight\/16106931-2-eng-GB\/Rosetta_the_end_is_in_sight_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIt is just over two years since Rosetta made its rendezvous with comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and now the end of the mission is in sight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs the spacecraft and the comet head towards Jupiter, Rosetta is getting spectacularly close to the surface &#8211; up to three kilometres so far &#8211; allowing detailed views of the comet&rsquo;s cliffs, boulders and plains, as well observing changes since the orbiter&rsquo;s arrival. A ten tonne boulder, for instance, has moved by 140 metres, most likely due to activity during perihelion, when the comet was at its closest point to the Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis film provides an overview of recent events in preparation for the mission&rsquo;s end on 30 September, when Rosetta will spiral down to a landing site on the head of the duck shaped comet, performing science and taking images along the way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt includes interviews with Carsten G&Uuml;TTLER, OSIRIS camera scientist, ESA (English and German); Fabrizzio CAPACCIONI, VIRTIS instrument Principal Investigator (English); Claire VALLAT, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) liaison scientist, ESA (English and French)<\/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-242684","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\/242684","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=242684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242685,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242684\/revisions\/242685"}],"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=242684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}