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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

GeoTalk: Matt Taylor of ESA’s Rosetta mission

July 15, 2016
GeoTalk: Matt Taylor of ESA’s Rosetta mission
Screenshot from the Rosetta mission cartoons. Credit: ESA. All Rosetta Mission videos are available on YouTube

In November 2014, space exploration history was made. Millions of kilometres away, orbiting a piece of ice and rock, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission sent its probe Philae to become the first spacecraft to soft-land on a comet. After the tense 7-hour wait that followed the separation from the main orbiter, a tweet confirmed that the little lander had successfully completed the fir ...[Read More]

Geosciences Column: What made the comet sing?

August 19, 2015
Geosciences Column: What made the comet sing?
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 31 January 2015, at the time when it was still singing. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

Late last year the Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) announced that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been studying since August 2014, was singing into space. Now, in a paper published today in the EGU’s open access journal Annales Geophysicae, the RPC team reveals more details about 67P’s song, including why the comet was singing. The sounds ...[Read More]