Sentences with phrase «around the comet through»

Its «mothership» is the Rosetta spacecraft that will remain in orbit around the comet through 2015.

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With the help of computer - generated scenery, scientists act as tour guides through exotic spacescapes — clambering around the surface of a comet, for instance, while describing the supersonic jets of ice that erupt from its surface.

As the comet hurtles through the inner Solar System at around 100,000 km / h, the relative speed between orbiter and comet will remain equivalent to walking pace.

Meteor showers occur when the earth in its orbit around the Sun passes through debris left over from the disintegration of comets.