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On 12 November 2014 Philae became the first spacecraft to land on a comet as part of the successful Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Five years later, and after the mission\u2019s official end in 2016, Rosetta is continuing to provide insights into the origins of our Solar System.<\/p>\n
\nRosetta\u2019s instruments have already discovered that the comet contained oxygen, organic molecules, noble gases and \u2019heavy\u2019 or deuterated water different to that found on Earth. \u00a0
As scientists continue to analyse data from Rosetta\u2019s instruments, including the ionised gas or plasma, the results are improving our understanding of comets. Mission data is also being delivered to an archive as a future resource.<\/p>\n
Rosetta orbits the Sun every 6.5 years and will pass the Earth again, visible from ground-based telescopes, in 2021. ESA\u2019s future Comet Interceptor mission will build on Rosetta\u2019s success when it performs a flyby of a comet. But, unlike Rosetta, the comet will be new to our Solar System.<\/p>\n
The film contains interviews with Charlotte Goetz, Research Fellow, ESA; Kathrin Altwegg, ROSINA instrument principal investigator, Rosetta\/University of Bern; Colin Snodgrass, Comet Interceptor principal investigator.<\/p>\n