Sentences with phrase «landing on a 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.

Finally, in 2014, Rosetta, a European mission, will attempt a landing on the comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

Scientists using the Rosetta spacecraft — which arrived at 67P in August and became the first mission to orbit and land on a comet — now think they may have discovered the source of these patterns on cliff faces and in deep pits: layer upon layer of rounded nodules, 1 to 3 meters across.

One spacecraft, called Deep Impact, will attempt to blast a huge hole in a comet; another is intended to land on a comet and scoop up parts of its surface.

A concept called Comet Hitchhiker, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, puts forth a new way to get into orbit and land on comets and asteroids, using the kinetic energy — the energy of motion — of these small bodies.

For any spacecraft landing on a comet or asteroid, being able to slow down enough to arrive safely is critical.

This is the last photo we're getting from Philae before it lands on the comet on 12 November.

The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the comet on Wednesday, 12 November, has not moved from its landing spot and so its solar panels are not getting enough sunlight.

The discovery comes about one month before the end of the Rosetta mission; the orbiter is scheduled to land on the comet on September 30 and then shut down.

It will be the first time that landing on a comet has ever been attempted.

Philae has landed on a comet.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — On Wednesday, 12 November, the Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe is set to attempt an historic landing on a comet, known as 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

«It's complicated to land on a comet,» Ulamec says.

When the time reached 1800, however, things had started to get tense: the mission cost $ 1 billion, the first ever sent to orbit or land on a comet.

Philae — the first spacecraft to ever land on a comet as part of the Rosetta mission — has gone silent again, and scientists fear that it may have stopped communicating for good.

Through the night of November 11 and into the morning of November 12, Rosetta and Philae will go through critical go - no - go tests in preparation for landing on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

ISON could also help the European Space Agency land on comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko next year.

«I don't think we'll land on a comet another time.

They will have to figure out what publicity strategy to adopt during the year - long orbital phase, especially in November, when Philae, a probe piggybacking on Rosetta, will attempt to land on the comet.

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, Rosetta will attempt the first - ever soft landing on a comet when it dispatches its Philae lander to the surface of comet 67P.

ScienceCasts: Rosetta Comet Comes Alive 04 June 2014 Later this year, Europe's Rosetta probe will orbit and land on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

The main focus to date has been to survey 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in order to prepare for the first - ever attempt to soft - land on a comet.

The soft landing of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said Science's deputy news editor Robert Coontz.

The soft landing of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said

In 2014, the world looked on eagerly as a probe landed on a comet for the first time, as a test flight brought humans one step closer to Mars, and as astronauts tweeted home striking images from space, giving those left behind on Earth the sense that they were along for the ride.

Rosetta's Philae lander made the first soft landing on a comet.

* Philae Lander was the first spacecraft to land on a comet.

The culmination of a 10 - year journey, this marks the start of a year - long mission by Rosetta to study Churyumov — Gerasimenko to gain new insights into the early history of the Solar System, as well as the first attempt to land on a comet in November.

«Over the next few months, in addition to characterizing the comet nucleus and setting the bar for the rest of the mission, we will begin final preparations for another space history first: landing on a comet,» says Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist.

As it approaches Churyumov — Gerasimenko, Rosetta will scout out five candidate spots to set down the Philae lander for the historic first attempt at landing on a comet.

In fact, I am having a Space Theme party tomorrow night to watch the Rosetta / Philae landing on the comet 67P.

As Mario you'll pursue Bowser, only to get blasted into space and land on the comet, discovering that it's actually a spaceship powered from stars and run by Roselina who is, in short, the mother of the universe since she raises Lumas (little star babies), into adulthood where they become planets, suns, and galaxies.

Not exact matches

If the landing is successful, it will be the first time scientists have landed a probe on a comet, and it will be the completion of a mission that began 10 years ago when the Rosetta spacecraft launched.

The incredible achievement of tracking, then landing on, a comet is itself like a work of art, a celebration of our humanity.

The Physics World «2014 Breakthrough of the Year» went to the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission1 for being the first to land a spacecraft (Philae) on a comet (67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko), on 12 November.

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We've put robots on both the moon and mars, but scientists have never tried to soft - land a robot on a comet — until now.

In the early 1970s, astronomers discovered that space was full of complex organic molecules, some of them forming part of the comets and meteorites that occasionally crash - land on Earth.

Philae, the comet - landing component of the European Rosetta mission, made the most of the hours it had last November on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

When the astronauts go to the comet, they can't land on it due to its weak gravity, so instead they tether themselves to it (I literally cheered when I saw that scene in the theater).

They still don't know exactly where the probe is on the comet's surface, but Holger Sierks, who is in charge of the OSIRIS camera on Rosetta, said they should have a picture of Philae's 1 kilometre - high bounce after landing, which will help pinpoint its final resting spot.

Other big news included the rise and fall of a claimed detection of gravitational waves, new findings about the history of early humans from analyses of DNA and the spectacular landing of the Rosetta spacecraft's robotic explorer Philae on comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko.

If ESA discovers that J is unsuitable between now and November, they have selected a backup site, C. Landing on this spot would give Philae a view of the comet's «neck», which is of high scientific interest, but J won out as the easier place to touch down.

Despite seven months adrift and alone on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko since its bumpy landing last year, Philae is back and ready for science.

Over the next decade, Southwood's «cosmic vision» program calls for, among other goals, landing spacecraft on Mars, Mercury, Saturn's moon Titan, and a comet; observing the birth, evolution, and death of stars and galaxies at gamma ray and infrared wavelengths; studying the afterglow of the big bang; and mapping the positions and motions of nearly every star in the Milky Way.

The J landing spot, on the «head» of the comet, was chosen for having the smoothest surface, but that doesn't mean Rosetta's lander probe, Philae, will touch down without incident.

PHILAE FOUND The landing spot of the Philae comet lander (left, and bottom right), seen in this September 2 image from the Rosetta spacecraft, has been hiding on comet 67P (top right) since November 2014.

Radar data helped locate an approximate position for its final resting spot — somewhere just within the rim of the large crater on the head of the duck - shaped comet, what was once known as landing site «B.» Holger Sierks, principal investigator for the orbiter's camera, was waiting for images to be downloaded to Earth tonight that he thought would contain the lander.

I'm back at ESA's operation center for a second day, following Philae's harrowing, but ultimately successful landing on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

In November this year, it will release a small craft called Philae to land on the surface of the comet.