Landing Rosetta Comet 67P

Chapter forth five the Rosetta Lander by European Space Agency hopes to bring some details as to this long time beckon that may be left unearth onto the comet surface. Planning to land on the front of this comet is immensely complex. As Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Japan Projects. As they experienced similar difficulty as with their return journey from 'Ju 1999 Asteroid' orbits between planets Mars and Venus. Returned sampled from Space cCaft Hayabusa 2010 samples are on exhibit 'Sagamihara City Museum'.  
As the E.S.A. go whaling this comet without a harpoon. They could winch down its lander on a fix antenna as this has risk, but it could be a sure shot by its Philae Lander onto three carbon graphite flex feet that move, had it been identified. Here on space cruising is the probe that went into hibernation. Been in this state for over two and a half years. It took three quarters of an hour to get it back to operational state as Fred Jansen Rosetta mission manager told space cruising. Europe 's Rosetta Spacecraft was launched from Earth in 2004.
Launched back in 2004 , the probe has taken a rather circuitous route out to its target comet. Among its wide range of scientific measurements, Philae lander will send back a panorama of its surroundings, as well as very high-resolution pictures of the surface. It will also performing an on the spot analysis of the composition of the ices and the comets organic material, Pendahuluan drilling down to 23 cm below the surface and feeding samples to Philae's on-board laboratory for analysis.The focus of the mission will then move to the 'escort' phase, during your Rosetta which will stay alongside the comet as it moves closer to the Sun.

Monitoring the ever-changing conditions have on the surface as the comet warms up and its ICES sublimate. Rosetta will follow the comet races, the remainder of 2015, as it heads away from the Sun and activity begins to subside. This craft has made a number of maneuvers these were involved making flybys off other planets, Using Their gravity to pick up speed for the eventual sufficient encounter of his comet outside the planet Jupiter. It has already delivered some fascinating science, particularly from the close passes made ​​by two Asteroids the rocks Steins, in 2008 , and Lutetia, in 2010.

The Spacecraft is fully operational and is ready for drilling Probe Philae commences depart in September, the probe is awake and the science team knows there are two busy years ahead of them. Saying now we have to work hard. Thanks to the team that's achieved this . this is a beautifully detailed rendering of the Rosetta Mission. Its showing the landing craft on the Icy Surface of ' Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasiamenko'. The sun beyond above is the main orbiter spacecraft , with '14 meters of solar panels on each side'. The Orbiter has eleven groups of scientific instruments , Intended to take Readings from the lander , and relay to back to earth. The prototype of the Rosetta disk is also on the orbiter , located on the exterior thermal blankets underneath .
The Orbiter is due to intercept with the comet in 2014. ESA 's space operations center in Darmstadt , Germany was almost deafening . Scientists and engineers were waiting to Receive a signal from the Rosetta Spacecraft , Which was supposed to come out of Hibernation today to begin its mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in Earnest . Finally , after waiting nearly 45 minutes into the window of time When the Spacecraft was supposed to send a signal that's it limits Successfully come out of Hibernation , Appeared a little blip on the screens of the spectrum Analyses and the room erupted in cheers.

Once controllers have a full assessment of the health of Rosetta , They will Initiate a series of burns on its thrusters to close the gap to 67P .
Currently at a separation of nine million miles, this will be reduced to a mere 10 km by mid September. As it has to find a landing for the 'three legged robot called Philae in November' is sure to be a nail biting event. I know that NASA colleagues talked about 'seven minutes of terror' for the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars it'll will be more like four hours of terror between the separation of Philae and its 'docking' on the comet , said Esa director general Jean- Jacques Dordain. The Rosetta for the intention is to follow the comet as it moves closer Towards the Sun , monitoring the changes that's take place on the body.
Philae landing probe will report that's changes occur at the surface. Comets giant 'dirty snowballs', as some have called all comets are believed to contain materials. These have remained largely unchanged since the formation of the solar system 4.6bn years ago. Rosetta data should therefore help researchers understand better how our local space environment has evolved over time magnetically and structurally. Rosetta is a unique mission - technologically unique, unique scientifically, and philosophically is unique because comets may have been where the origins of how humans came to 'inherit the earth' and may answer the big question of how 'Earth Oceans Formed'?