EURO MISSION ON TARGET--Remarkable if one really thinks about the fact
that mankind is about to rendezvous a spacecraft with a comet in outer space on
August 6, 2014. The mission is called
Rosetta and as it orbits the comet (as the comet orbits the sun) will send down a lander called Philae in
November 2014.
As of late July, 2014,
images sent back to earth of the encounter with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
are appearing on the Internet from European Space Agency sources:
Those amazing images
show the comet may be a contact binary or basically speeding around the cosmos
in two parts. To stretch a metaphor,
this imagery is like having a camera on the beach when Columbus made landfall
in the West Indies in 1492.
Kudos to all
involved. It is a truly remarkable
accomplishment.
Science@NASA blog has an
update: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/17jul_rosetta/
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