EPISODE · Feb 5, 2008 · 4 MIN
The Rosetta Odyssey
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Before each manoeuvre, the mission control team at ESA's Space Operations Centre simulates all aspects of the upcoming operation and practices identifying and solving problems that could arise. The multinational team must work as one to react immediately and effectively. Once at its target comet in 2014, Rosetta’s lander, Philae, will touch down and study the comet’s surface composition and drill into the icy nucleus to collect and analyse samples, including complex organic material that may have contributed to the formation of life on Earth.ESApod video programme
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The third and final Rosetta planetary fly-by will bring the spacecraft to Earth in November 2009 before it heads out on the final and longest leg of its ten-year journey to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in 2014.
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