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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Rendezvous with a comet

02 Oct 2014
Taken from the October 2014 issue of Physics World

After making a successful rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko earlier this year, Europe’s Rosetta craft is now riding alongside this celestial body and next month is set to land a probe on its surface. Matt Taylor describes the excitement of this unique project and the scientific insights that it hopes to achieve

Getting up close
“I’ll not lie to you. It’s tense here at @esa #WakeUpRosetta,” Tweeted the a

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