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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]

Apply now to take part in the 2016 GIFT workshop!

October 7, 2015
Apply now to take part in the 2016 GIFT workshop!
Rosetta and Philae preparing for comet landing. The topic of the 2016 GIFT Workshop is ‘The Solar System and beyond’ and is co-organised with the European Space Agency (ESA). (Credit: ESA)

The General Assembly is not only for researchers but for teachers and educators with an interest in the geosciences also. Every year the Geosciences Information For Teachers (GIFT) is organised by the EGU Committee on Education to bring first class science closer to primary and high school teachers. The topic of the 2016 edition of GIFT is ‘The Solar System and beyond’. This year’s workshop is co- ...[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]