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    Rosetta – the story so far

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    • Title Rosetta – the story so far
    • Released: 13/01/2014
    • Length 00:02:23
    • Language English
    • Footage Type Documentary
    • Copyright ESA
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      This short movie tells the story of Rosetta's journey through the Solar System so far, through the voices of some of the many people involved in this exciting mission.

      ESA's Rosetta spacecraft launched in March 2004 and has since been chasing down comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will become the first space mission to orbit a comet, the first to attempt a landing on a comet’s surface, and the first to follow a comet as it swings around the Sun. In the last ten years Rosetta has made 3 flybys of Earth and 1 of Mars, and passed by and imaged asteroids Steins and Lutetia. Operating on solar energy alone, in June 2011 Rosetta was placed into deep space hibernation as it cruised nearly 800 million kilometres from the warmth of the Sun, close to the orbit of Jupiter. On 20 January, Rosetta will wake up at 673 million kilometres from the Sun and about 9 million km from the comet, ready for the next leg of its epic adventure.

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    • Activity Space Science
    • Mission Rosetta
    • System Rosetta Orbiter
    • Keywords Animations, Astronomy, Clean room, comet, Comets, Comets and Asteroids, Launch, Rosetta, Space Exploration

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