Ready for the big event – Rosetta mission selfie taken on 7 October at a distance of about 16 km from its target comet
... be at least as beautiful as terrestrial art) because from space probes we only see the whole object – planet, moon, comet - or close-ups of it, as it looks from space. Only artists can visualise what it would look like for someone...
... and coping with cosmic hazards will be much better understood. We will be actively engaged in defending against asteroids, comets, solar flares, coronal ejections, changes to Earth’s magnetosphere, and orbital space debris. The world is moving...
... 10 million kilometres from Earth. Throughout its history, the Earth has been continually impacted by asteroids and comets. Some impacts have had catastrophic effects, such as the one believed to be responsible for the extinction of the...
... field. One of the basic goals of space exploration is to study the evolutionary development of celestial bodies – planets, moons, comets, etc - to answer a number of important natural-science questions: what are the laws of formation and development...
This interactive 3D tool shows where the European Space Agency's comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft is on any given day – from launch in 2004 to the end of its nominal mission in 2015. http://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/