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As alien as it gets

User Image illconsidered | November 13, 2014
Humankind has touched the surface of the solar system's most alien of objects. Image taken from NAVCAM top 10 at 10 km – 10. There are no words...

The Comet. It Sings!

Physical Sciences gregladen | November 12, 2014
Have you heard the comet singing? From the Rosetta Blog this press release: Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. RPC principal investigator Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier, head of Space Physics and Space Sensorics at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, tells us more. Sound_comet2 Artist's impression of the 'singing comet' 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam RPC consists of five instruments on the Rosetta orbiter that provide a wide variety of complementary information about the…

Philae and Philae: Separated at birth?

gregladen | November 12, 2014
Just so you know, Philae is a lander planning to land on a comet at this moment being landed on by an Earthling Spacecraft, and it is also an island in the Nile. Before the Rosetta space craft got close, we had no idea what the comet looked like. Now we do. And it looks like Philae! Coincidence????