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BR-318 Rosetta

Published : May 2014

Type : Brochure, 18 pages

Editor(s) : E. Gray

Author(s) : E. Baldwin

Issue : BR-318

ISBN : 978-92-9221-079-3

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BR-318 Rosetta

22 July 2014
Rosetta is ESA´s comet-chasing mission. Launched in March 2004, it will be the first mission to fly alongside and attempt to land a probe on a comet. With details of how the mission plans to orbit comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as they head towards the inner Solar System, this brochure describes Rosetta´s 10-year journey to the comet and how the mission hopes to unlock the mysteries of how the Solar System evolved.

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