06 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
The Rosetta mission’s latest discoveries on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are ...organic-rich black crust. It should be noted that both the Philae lander and the Rosetta probe were not equipped to search for direct evidence of life – a proposal to...
31 July 2015
New Rosetta data on 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko: from complex molecules to comet erosion
Data analysis from the Rosetta mission is giving scientists at the European Space Agency a lot to ponder. The historic comet landing on 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko ...
December 2014
The vanity of machines
Ready for the big event – Rosetta mission selfie taken on 7 October at a distance of about 16 km from its target comet
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... derive the location. The CONSERT ranging measurements between Rosetta and Philae provided information on which a landing ellipse ... search campaign is only expected to be undertaken during the mission extension in 2016. Of course, we are confident and...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... was keen to create great content that could help to generate some attention for a competition linked to the Rosetta mission. The brief contained various types of videos. One stuck out in particular: ESA requested the creation of an illustrated...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... with the Sun and the Solar System. As part of this job I was still in charge of the Rosetta mission, but I had to leave the spacecraft operations manager role. Fortunately at this time Venus Express had reached a ...
