March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... we found with Rosetta. [6] OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 23 January 2016 when Rosetta was 75.1 km from Comet 67P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko (the scale is 1.37 m/pixel) An unexplored avenue for creating additional engagement may involve find...
February 2016
Protecting Earth from cosmic disasters
...simulation of possible space catastrophe scenarios. Since asteroid and comet danger falls into the category of the few natural ...by the fall demonstrate the seriousness of asteroid and comet danger, and underline the necessity of developing measures ...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
...potential alternative candidates to the baseline mission to comet Wirtanen. This work had been requested years...year of flight). The target would be 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a larger comet than Wirtanen, with an estimated radius of 2 km. This posed a...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... System from exoplanets to dangerous asteroids and meandering comets. The MASTER network has discovered about one thousand... are also capable of locating potentially dangerous asteroids and comets. MASTER III Long-term experience of working with search...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... initiative, are addressing cosmic threats from asteroids and comets, but have essentially said, ‘There is nothing ... and deploy space systems that can provide protection from asteroids, comets, solar radiation and solar ionic eruptions. It seems to ...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... was the first spacecraft to return cometary samples. In 2004, the Stardust spacecraft made a close flyby of comet Wild-2, collecting comet and interstellar dust, returning samples to Earth in a capsule two years later. On top of the flexibility...
