Sentences with phrase «around comet 67p»

Rosetta will continue scientific operations around comet 67P for another two months before completing its mission, when it will join Philae, descending down onto the comet.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has reached its final resting place after two years in orbit around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko

Rosetta's continuous orbit around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko is helping scientists figure out how life began on Earth — and heralds a new age of comet science.

After a two - year orbital tour around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft — carrying Southwest Research Institute's Alice ultraviolet spectrograph — will end its mission this week on Sept. 30.

Those interactions could explain the surprising abundance of O2 detected in the fuzzy envelope of gas around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in 2015 (SN: 11/28/15, p. 6), researchers report May 8 in Nature Communications.

Not exact matches

The comet orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko at 7:19 a.m. Eastern and immediately shut down, bringing to an end a nearly 26 - month mission in orbit around the comet.

On 30 September, the European Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space rock.

Since the Rosetta spacecraft's arrival last August (SN: 9/6/14, p. 8), researchers have debated whether 67P was a comet that lost some weight around its waistline or two comets that got a little too...

The overall illumination conditions could improve for another couple months, as comet 67P approaches perihelion on 13 August, the closest point in its orbit around the sun.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

The oxygen levels also varied in step with water levels as Rosetta flew around the comet, suggesting that ice and oxygen in 67P's atmosphere are coming from the same places in its nucleus.

Comet 67P / Churyumov - GerasimenCourtesy ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDARosetta - a spacecraft launched over ten years ago by the European Space Agency (ESA)- finally reached its goal yesterday, aligning and syching itself up with the orbital path of a comet (67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko) speeding around the Sun.

, researchers have debated whether 67P is a comet that lost some weight around its waistline or two comets that got a little too attached to one another.

u «Since the Rosetta spacecraft's arrival last August [2014], researchers have debated whether 67P is a comet that lost some weight around its waistline or two comets that got a little too attached to one another.