30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
...!" - that's history. It's now time to say: "Sleep well, Rosetta." ROOM spoke to Dr. Paolo Ferri, Spacecraft Operations Manager for the Rosetta Mission, head of Solar and Planetary Missions Operations division on this historic occasion. "It was a sad...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... emotional moment for all of us. I am writing this final article just two days after the end of the Rosetta mission. This adventure has been a major part of my professional and private life for almost exactly 20 years, since...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... that are similar in composition to 67P/C-G, the comet surveyed by Rosetta. Pluto’s small size and unusual orbit has always earmarked it as... data. However data from the New Horizons and Rosetta missions have changed all of that and two researchers,...
06 September 2016
Philae's final resting place has been found
... with the probe was so difficult following its landing on 12 November 2014. “With only a month left of the Rosetta mission, we are so happy to have finally imaged Philae, and to see it in such amazing detail,” says Cecilia Tubiana of the...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
...my life. To be honest I pretty much forgot about it until the comet was chosen as a target destination for the Rosetta mission. Although my family is very proud to have a comet named after it, none of my three children have followed me and my husband...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
... and other elements; the simplest of which is chloromethane. Using data captured with the ROSINA instrument on ESA’s Rosetta mission and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a team of astronomers have found faint traces...
