Sentences with phrase «part on comet»
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.
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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.
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.
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.
She has traveled to the South Pole as part of a U.S. National Science Foundation program for journalists and been a passenger on NASA's infamous vomit comet.
By 2015, other research teams had announced that the «Hypatia» stone was not part of any known types of meteorite or comet, based on noble gas and nuclear probe analyses.
Deep Space 1 flew past Comet Borrelly on 22 September, spotting jets of gas and dust streaming from the thinnest part of the comet's bowling - pin - shaped core.
Plus, Myrtha Hässig discusses the surprising heterogeneity of comet 67P as part of Science's special issue on the Rosetta spacecraft.
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.
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