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curiousuburb
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2014-08-06, 03:25

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Originally Posted by Elysium View Post
Exciting times are here again. Rosetta (ESA Comet mission) is slated to go into orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. If successful, this would be the first spacecraft to do so.

I hope they can successfully pull this off in anticipation of the Philae lander attempt in November.
*cough* The ESA site has a live stream** of the rendezvous for most of the day.

There's been some minor hoohah about the trickle-feed nature of ESA's image release policy in comparison to those used to NASA's "as live" style. ESA claims it is to allow researchers first crack at any discoveries, which sounds reasonable...

I mention it so your expectations are (re)calibrated as necessary in advance of the event.

Go Rosetta!

Edit:

** Stream requires Flash

As of Aug 4, this was the nav cam view...
IMG Source: Bad Astronomy

All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.

Last edited by curiousuburb : 2014-08-06 at 04:03.
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