Rosetta probe completes mission by crashing into comet’s surface
SEP 30, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210134
BBC : After spending 10 years traveling to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and 2 years collecting data, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has ended its mission with a planned crash landing on the comet’s surface. As it descended, Rosetta continued to capture high-resolution pictures and other measurements until just seconds before the crash. Researchers expect that some of those images will include a few of the many sinkholes that cover the comet’s surface and thus provide a window into the comet’s interior. The Rosetta mission has been deemed an outstanding success, and the data collected should keep researchers busy for decades to come.
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