The Three NASA Instruments Aboard Rosetta
Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit…
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Rosetta Wakes From Long Sleep – Is Alive and Well
It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as ESA heard from its distant spacecraft…
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Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies…
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Looking Back on the Giotto Encounter With Comet Halley
Comet Halley, the originator of the Orionids meteor shower that lit up our skies last month – as they do every October – is seen here…
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