Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Aufwachen, Rosetta!

Rosetta is a satellite launched by the European Space Agency back in March of 2004. The Rosetta mission is mainly to reach comet 67P, Tschurjmow-Gerasimenko. All this time Rosetta has been orbiting Earth, Mars, and Sun to gain speed and rotate into comet 67P's orbit. Rosetta has been using solar power to get into the corresponding orbits, however, it went into a hibernation as it travels toward the comet since it is to far from the sun. Rosetta has woken back up from this 957 day hibernation and is getting ready to approach the comet. 

http://www.dw.de/aufwachen-rosetta/a-17363168

Here is a cool website that shows where Rosetta has traveled and where it is now.
 https://util1.estec.esa.int/rosetta/where_is_rosetta/

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