Sentences with phrase «on comet 67p»

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

ESA's Philae (fee - LAY) lander is scheduled to touch down on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko at 7:35 a.m. PST (10:35 a.m. EST).

Image depicts the primary landing site on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko chosen for the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission.

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

Methyl isocyanate has become a target for astrochemists ever since the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission detected the molecule on the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko 2 years ago.

And on a gas - and - dust - spewing comet — an active body getting ever more active — there is always the possibility for a change in environment: Philae is not the only moving part on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

Pinpointing lander's cold resting place on comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko will be a boon to researchers

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.

Rosetta detected ethanol on comet 67P, although the finding has not yet been published.

When the Rosetta spacecraft successfully touched down on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016, the news was shared globally via Twitter in dozens of languages.

Three boulders (shown) balance precariously on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in this Sept. 16 image taken 29 kilometers above the surface by the Rosetta spacecraft

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.

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

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.

Nodules seen in fresh pit walls and cliff faces on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko could be the fundamental units of comet formation.

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.

Philae has been found, nestled in a shadowy crevice on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

Not exact matches

To rendezvous with comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in 2007 — which it will crash into on September 30, 2016 — the Rosetta spacecraft needed a speed boost with the help of Earth's gravity.

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.

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 September 30, the orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko and immediately shut down, bringing an end to the missioOn September 30, the orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko and immediately shut down, bringing an end to the missioon the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko and immediately shut down, bringing an end to the mission.

Rosetta captured its shadow on 67P's surface (sixth row, far left), along with evidence of outgassing from the comet.

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.

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.

On November 12th 2014 the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will eject the small robotic lander Philae on a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for shortOn November 12th 2014 the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will eject the small robotic lander Philae on a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for shorton a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for short).

The newly created objects have different sizes and shapes, among them are many elongated bodies, some of which consist of two parts, just like the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, which the University of Bern studied in detail with the Bern mass spectrometer ROSINA on the Rosetta spacecraft.

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.

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.

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.

Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004, and through a complex series of flybys — three times past Earth and once past Mars — set course to its destination: comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

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.

A camera on Rosetta captures the Philae lander as it falls to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

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

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.

Plus, Myrtha Hässig discusses the surprising heterogeneity of comet 67P as part of Science's special issue on the Rosetta spacecraft.

All good things must come to an end, and so it will be on 30 September when the Rosetta spacecraft makes its planned soft landing onto the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, the culmination of 2 years of close - up studies.

IN FOCUS Philae's landing site, Agilkia, is just above the clearly visible depression on the smaller of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko's two lobes.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — So far, it is go for launch of the Philae lander to the core of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko on November 12.

A region on the «head» of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, near the top of this image, is the target for Philae, the Rosetta mission's lander.

On Wednesday, the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Rosetta spacecraft will release a washing machine — sized lander, Philae, in the hope that it alights safely on the dusty, black surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - GerasimenkOn Wednesday, the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Rosetta spacecraft will release a washing machine — sized lander, Philae, in the hope that it alights safely on the dusty, black surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenkon the dusty, black surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

COVER View of a cliff and gravel field on the small lobe of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko from a distance of 8 kilometers to the surface, as seen by Rosetta / OSIRIS.

A radar instrument, working in concert with a receiver on Philae, got data about the interior of the comet that could help unravel a major question: Does 67P have its duck head and body because two separate cometesimals came together?

Zooming in on the comet's surface, Rosetta spied mysterious meter - size «goose bumps» thought to be the primordial building blocks of 67P.

The consortium instruments are designed to study a number of phenomena, including the interaction of 67P / C - G with the solar wind, a continuous stream of plasma emitted by the sun; changes of activity on the comet; the structure and dynamics of the comet's tenuous plasma atmosphere, known as the coma; and the physical properties of the comet's nucleus and surface.

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 67On 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 67on a comet when it dispatches its Philae lander to the surface of comet 67P.

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.

This artist's concept of the Rosetta mission's Philae lander on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko is from an animation showing the upcoming deployment of Philae and its subsequent science operations on the surface of the 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

The Rosetta spacecraft has found the water vapor from comet 67P / C - G to be significantly different from that found on Earth.