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Rosetta mission probe ends 12 year journey, lands on comet

Oct 2, 2016

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission will come to an end tomorrow, when the spacecraft will land on the comet it was launched to study in 2004. The craft reached the comet, called 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimen...

The UK celebrates Philae comet lander success with special Royal Mail postmark stamp

Charles Omedo

Nov 17, 2014

Innovation

The United Kingdom is celebrating the successful landing of the Philae on the comet with a commemorative special postmark stamp, which is affixed to all letters delivered by the Royal Mail to England, Scotland,...

Comet 67P lander Philae completed 80% of its assignments before going silent

Charles Omedo

Nov 16, 2014

Innovation

The current hibernation mode of ESA lander Philae that landed on the surface of comet 67P on Wednesday has come as a disappointment to many members of the public, but not much to the controllers managing the ro...

Philae sends data from comet 67P, exact location unknown

Charles Omedo

Nov 15, 2014

Innovation

It is true that the Philae made a soft landing on the comet 67P on Wednesday, and it has just sent its first scientific data of information about the comet in a radio down link back to Earth, but its exact loca...

Philae lander just before touching the surface of Comet 67P

European Space probe Philae gets marooned in the cliff of a shadow after landing glitches

Amanda

Nov 13, 2014

Innovation

European Space Agency lander probe, Philae which made a historic landing on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a decade-long, 6.4 billion-kilometer (4 billion-mile) journey through space aboard its mothe...

ESA prepares Rosetta to land Philae probe on Comet 67P on Wednesday

Charles Omedo

Nov 11, 2014

Innovation

On coming Wednesday history will be made with the successful landing of the Rosetta's Philae probe on the comet 67P surface, and the world can then sit back to learn a few things about the space body and perhap...

Rosetta comet mission made possible by UK’s space expertise

Charles Omedo

Nov 11, 2014

Innovation

You are aware of the fact that the celebrated Rosetta comet mission will be deploying its Philae Lander unit in a soft and controlled landing on comet on Wednesday, but what you may not know is that most of the...

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Comet Sliding Spring flies past Mars producing a rare cosmic treat

Amanda

Nov 10, 2014

Innovation

Comet C/2013 A1 or Siding Spring, as it is more commonly known, which flew past the Red Planet Mars last month and dumped tons of primordial dust and ice particles on to the planet’s atmosphere, creating severa...

NASA’s Opportunity and Curiosity Mars rovers couldn’t observe burning cometary dust

Charles Omedo

Nov 8, 2014

Innovation

It is coming as a surprise to many that NASA’s robotic explorers, the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers, could not observe the shooting stars phenomenon that occurred recently when a comet that zipped past Mars ...

NASA captures Comet Siding Spring meteor showering effects as it flyby Martian Atmosphere

Charles Omedo

Nov 8, 2014

Innovation

The Wide Field Camera 3 of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN Spacecraft has captured image of a comet that sprayed thousands of shooting starts that looked like layers of fine dust on Mars as it passed it...

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