PLAYING CATCH-UP After a decade-long trek across the solar - TopicsExpress



          

PLAYING CATCH-UP After a decade-long trek across the solar system, a European spacecraft named Rosetta is about to do something none of its predecessors have done before: orbit a comet. On Wednesday, Aug. 6, the European Space Agencys (ESA) Rosetta spaceraft is expected to arrive around the nucleus of comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ending a 4-billion-mile (6.4 billion kilometers) journey. For the missions controllers, the historic rendezvous will mark the end of a careful, years-long game of catch-up.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:30:59 +0000

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