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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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Blast from the past: on this day in 2007, Rosetta performed a flyby at Mars – one of four planetary gravity assists (the other three were at Earth) needed to boost the spacecraft onto the correct trajectory to meet up with Comet 67P/C–G. The image, taken by Philae's CIVA camera, captures one of Rosetta’s 14 m-long solar arrays set against the northern hemisphere of Mars.  Hi F-BVFA I think you fly past to quick to leave a link. [ link to www.esa.int] This image was captured 8 years ago yesterday, just a reminder of how long we had been building up to rendezvous. K Thank you K. Somehow I had lost the image and could not find it again.  Tonight in London!Rosetta: Unlocking Secrets from Ancient Egypt to a CometThursday, 26 February 2015 - 6:00pm Museum of London Just as the Rosetta Stone and the Philae Obelisk became the key to interpreting hieroglyphs and understanding ancient Egyptian civilisation, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe and its Philae lander are key to furthering our understanding of the formation of our solar system, and the origins of life. The Philae lander made the first ever soft landing on a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration. -50% read more here: [ link to www.gresham.ac.uk]
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