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Rosetta Comet Orbiter -** 120 Icy Patches ** Philae Phones Home ** Ceres Fly Over Video ** New Coma Discovery ** Picture MOTHER LODE !
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Very much looking forward to its arrival.
Quoting: Dr. Astro I think the landing phase will be amazing if it works. I hope they have better luck than the Japanese did with the MINERVA lander. K Aha, I thought you meant the Landing Phase, ON EARTH.  @ ME That is not a silly idea at all. When Rosetta was first being planned in 1985 it was going to be a sample return mission in partnership with NASA. A lander would go down to the surface of the comet and collect a sample, which would then be brought all the way back to Earth for analysis. By 1992 NASA could no longer fund its side of the mission, and ESA didn't believe it could afford to do a sample return mission on its own. Rosetta had to be redesigned as one way mission, miniaturising all the lab analysis equipment so it could be fitted into Rosetta and Philae. Here is something about the on board analysis in the COSIMA instrument. Thread: Rosetta Comet Orbiter -** 120 Icy Patches ** Philae Phones Home ** Ceres Fly Over Video ** New Coma Discovery ** Picture MOTHER LODE ! (Page 5) K
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