- We’re at the comet! – Sylvain Lodiot the European Space Agency (ESA) enthusiastically confirms that Rosetta reached the end. Travel probe launched on 2 March 2004, when Rosetta was launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport G+ Kourou. Since that time, five circled the Sun, approaching three times the Earth and Mars time. In this way, through the so-called. assisted gravity probe increased speed and entered orbit close to the target – comet 67P/Czuriumow-Gierasimienko – ESA writes on its website.
Here’s an animation showing the path of the probe and the comet:
– After 10 years, five months and four days of travel, lap the sun five times and traveling 6.4 billion kilometers we finally have the pleasure to announce: We’re on the spot – he said as quoted by the BBC, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of ESA.
mission continues
Comet 67P/Czuriumow-Gierasimienko this ice object circling in an elliptical orbit, at 6, five years circling the sun. The farthest point of its orbit is the orbit of Jupiter, and the point closest to the Sun is located between the orbits of Mars and Earth – ESA writes.
Rosetta’s original goal was different. The probe was to reach the comet 46P/Wirtanen. However, the problems of the carrier rocket delayed the start date of the probe. Target changed. The next stage of the Rosetta mission will hold on the nucleus of a comet lander called Philae, which will study its surface.
Od Old Town Square after Zabwiciela and the Will of the Vistula – the outline of a comet superimposed on the map of Warsaw
It is interesting that, when the lander Philae worked, among others, Poles. One of the components built by experts from the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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