December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... already a huge success, due of course to the successful landing, but also to the outstanding performance of the instruments on Rosetta. By the end of the mission it will be difficult to top it. The next step has to go towards a sample return mission...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... French Guiana, just before the launch of the Rosetta spacecraft in March 2004 After my PhD I was ...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...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... Storytelling requires protagonists. The right choice of protagonists may result in diverse types of stories to be told. In the case of Rosetta and Philae, there were two protagonists that complemented each other quite easily. The narrative evolved...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... the bounce. There were a number of approaches taken to derive the location. The CONSERT ranging measurements between Rosetta and Philae provided information on which a landing ellipse could be defined. Together with correlation of the magnetic field...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... dwarf planet may be made-up of roughly a billion comets 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 something of an oddball amongst its larger planetary...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... came from cometary impacts, but today it is believed that 20 percent or less is more likely. Missions like ESA’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with an extensive set of instruments, showed that the deuterium to hydrogen ratio...
