30 November 2020
Researchers discover solid phosphorus in comet 67P
... also discovered fluorine in the solid dust particles collected from comet 67P/C-G. Whats more say the team, led by Harry Lehto ... icy object have already found CHNOS in solid form on comet 67P/C-G, all that had been missing, until now, was phosphorus...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...still should be feasible to at least find precursor molecules of amino acids if they are there. Our Kuiper belt comet 67P/C-G seems to be a fantastic object to study. We were very much astonished to find already a very rich mix of chemical substances...
06 September 2016
Philae's final resting place has been found
... lander, whose precise location until yesterday was still not known. Now wedged into a dark crack on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the lander was last seen when it first touched down at Agilkia – Philae’s target landing...
29 September 2016
Rosetta on the way to its final resting place on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... temperature and gravity field. This November 2014 shows an image taken by Rosetta's lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA The closest Rosetta had ever been to the surface was about 1.9 km—now...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... in accuracy and stability. They used new optical navigation techniques - identifying landmarks on the camera pictures of the comet and using them for triangulations to determine the position and velocity of the spacecraft relative to the surface...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... only confirmed just a few years ago when ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft rendezvoused with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and made the first in situ measurement of the compound. One sticking point to the theory is ...
