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    solar power, Rosetta's communications module with the lander was turned off on 27 July 2016. On 30 September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission...
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    records a detailed timeline of this mission. 16 February 2004 — The Rosetta spacecraft was placed on top of its Ariane 5 rocket at the Guiana Space Centre...
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    spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. On 30 September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by landing on the comet in its Ma'at region. Churyumov–Gerasimenko...
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    /ˈfiːleɪ/) was a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft until it separated to land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ten...
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  • September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by hard-landing on the comet in its Ma'at region. The Rosetta disc, Rosetta spacecraft and comet are...
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    The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf...
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    structure. The Rosetta mission was launched in early 2004 by the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. The mission for the Rosetta spacecraft was to follow...
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  • Northern Ireland Rosetta, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, a town in South Africa Rosetta (spacecraft), a European...
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    rendezvous and landing spacecraft. It was named after Jean-François Champollion, a French Egyptologist known for translating the Rosetta Stone. As originally...
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  • September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by hard-landing on the comet in its Ma'at region. The Rosetta disc, Rosetta spacecraft and comet are...
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    and was the first M-type asteroid to have been imaged by a spacecraft when the Rosetta space probe visited it on 10 July 2010. Its mean radar albedo...
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    imaging spectrometer, with one used on the New Horizons spacecraft, and another on the Rosetta spacecraft. Alice is a small telescope with a spectrograph and...
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  • 11 mm/s in August 1999, and Rosetta gained 1.82 mm/s after its Earth flyby in March 2005. An analysis of the MESSENGER spacecraft (studying Mercury) did not...
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    1998-061A. Retrieved 1 July 2015. "Rosetta spacecraft sees its shadow on a comet (photo)". Space.com. 5 March 2015. Rosetta flew just 3.7 miles (6 kilometers)...
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    its interior, and the European Space Agency's Rosetta, which became the first to land a robotic spacecraft on a comet. The word comet derives from the Old...
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    investigation by the Rosetta spacecraft, planned by the European Space Agency, but an inability to meet the launch window caused Rosetta to be sent to...
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  • of spaceflight only nation states had the resources to develop and fly spacecraft. Both the U.S. space program and Soviet space program were operated using...
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    on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by multiple instruments on the Rosetta spacecraft. The auroras were observed at far-ultraviolet wavelengths. Coma observations...
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    Matt Taylor (scientist) (category Rosetta mission)
    67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission (European Space Agency)'s Philae lander, which was the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. He...
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    and may be caused by a covering of dust. Results from the Rosetta and Philae spacecraft show that the nucleus of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has no magnetic...
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  • as Critically Endangered. 5 September Philae, the lander of ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, is located on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko; the exact position...
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    stations providing communications, tracking and data download from the Rosetta spacecraft. It supports the BepiColombo mission. Construction began in April...
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    detection of glycine within Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta spacecraft was announced. The detection of glycine outside the Solar System in...
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    determined. In 2015, it was noted that the ALICE instrument on the ESA Rosetta spacecraft to comet 67/P, detected hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in the...
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    on board Europe's Rosetta spacecraft, which was about 80 million km (50 million mi) from the comet at the time of impact. Rosetta determined the composition...
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    2867 Šteins (category Rosetta mission)
    In September 2008, ESA's spacecraft Rosetta flew by Šteins, making it one of few minor planets ever visited by a spacecraft. The bright E-type asteroid...
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    System) is the main scientific imaging system on the orbiter of the ESA spacecraft Rosetta for its mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It was built by...
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  • Gundam Sentinel Alice (spacecraft instrument), a UV imaging spectrograph on the New Horizons space probe and Rosetta spacecraft ALICE: A Large Ion Collider...
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    perihelion when the bow shocks already were fully developed. The Rosetta spacecraft followed comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from far out in the solar...
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  • outgassing effects using mass spectrometers could be obtained for ESA's Rosetta spacecraft. Natural outgassing is commonplace in comets. Outgassing is a possible...
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