{"id":242756,"date":"2016-09-09T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=696ab0dbccd1d32dab4596071a34ffa2"},"modified":"2016-09-09T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:24:00","slug":"rosetta-advancing-cometary-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242756","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta &#8211; advancing cometary 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\/2016\/09\/rosetta_-_advancing_cometary_science\/16117479-2-eng-GB\/Rosetta_-_advancing_cometary_science_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;\">\nRosetta was the first mission to orbit a comet and the first mission to land on a comet. Since its arrival at Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014, Rosetta\u2019s data has also transformed cometary science.\n<\/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;\">\nThis film showcases some of the Rosetta\u2019s scientific highlights before the orbiter shuts down operations and joins Philae on the surface of the comet on 30 September. This includes findings by the OSIRIS, VIRTIS, ROSINA and ALICE instruments. The mission results so far have made scientists rethink our picture of comets as dirty snowballs due to a lack of strong evidence for ice on the comet surface. Instead the ice is buried beneath the surface, covered by a layer of dust. This dust layer means that the comet is very dark, only reflecting a few per cent of the light that falls on it.\n<\/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;\">\nAlthough the spacecraft mission will end, the data obtained by Rosetta will provide enough work to keep scientists busy for decades.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nThe film includes interviews with Joel PARKER, Principal Investigator, ALICE instrument (English); Laurence O\u2019ROURKE, Rosetta downlink science operations manager, European Space Astronomy Centre, ESA (English).<\/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_-_advancing_cometary_science\/16117479-2-eng-GB\/Rosetta_-_advancing_cometary_science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta was the first mission to orbit a comet and the first mission to land on a comet. Since its arrival at Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014, Rosetta&rsquo;s data has also transformed cometary science.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis film showcases some of the Rosetta&rsquo;s scientific highlights before the orbiter shuts down operations and joins Philae on the surface of the comet on 30 September. This includes findings by the OSIRIS, VIRTIS, ROSINA and ALICE instruments. The mission results so far have made scientists rethink our picture of comets as dirty snowballs due to a lack of strong evidence for ice on the comet surface. Instead the ice is buried beneath the surface, covered by a layer of dust. This dust layer means that the comet is very dark, only reflecting a few per cent of the light that falls on it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough the spacecraft mission will end, the data obtained by Rosetta will provide enough work to keep scientists busy for decades.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe film includes interviews with Joel PARKER, Principal Investigator, ALICE instrument (English); Laurence O&rsquo;ROURKE, Rosetta downlink science operations manager, European Space Astronomy Centre, ESA (English).<\/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-242756","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\/242756","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=242756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242757,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242756\/revisions\/242757"}],"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=242756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}