ESA Celebrates First Anniversary of Rosetta’s Awakening; More to Come in 2015
[youtube]http://youtu.be/UqcDtRmJbKY[/youtube] At 10am GMT on the 20 January 2014, an 'alarm clock' went off on board a tiny spaceship, more than 800 million kilometres from Earth. The European Space Agency's craft Rosetta began restarting its systems after a
Rosetta Scientist to give Astronomy Ireland New Year Lecture Tonight
The gripping story of the Rosetta mission's rendezvous with and landing on Comet 67P was one of the big science stories of 2014. Now as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, Astronomy Ireland is marking the new year with a lecture
Comet Landing Beats Kim Kardashian’s Full Moon
So the other day Kim Kardashian took off all her clothes and showed us her lovely bottom, intending to 'Break the Internet'. Unfortunately for Kim, it appears the Internet was looking the other way, towards a different heavenly body with its
Today We Land on a Comet
We've talked about Rosetta before. The European Space Agency's mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko took 10 years to catch up with the comet, which is about the size of a city, and which we now know is shaped like
Rosetta Spacecraft Catches Comet after 10 Year Chase
This week, the Rosetta spacecraft reached the destination it's been working towards since its launch in 2004, and for many years before that: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. On RTÉ's Drivetime on Wednesday, Kevin O'Rourke of The Planetary Society, pointed out that this project
