European Spacecraft Pulls Alongside Comet “After 10 years and a journey of four billion miles, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its destination on Wednesday for the first extended, close examination of a comet. A six-minute thruster firing at 5 a.m. Eastern time, the last in a series of 10 over the past few months, slowed Rosetta to the pace of a person walking, about two miles per hour relative to the speed of its target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.”
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Had this been 2002, this moment would have been mind blowing!
Mostly because I would be posting a photo on a website that wasn’t around, from a phone technology that didn’t exist yet! I wish I had means of seeing what was on their VHS tapes…
This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Cassini spacecraft above Saturn’s northern hemisphere, heading toward its first dive between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017.
Jupiter’s swirling clouds around the Great Red Spot. NASA/JPL.
∞ x ∞ = ∞
Our planet seen from Saturn, captured by the Cassini spacecraft
Image credit: NASA / Cassini
on Nov. 28, 2013, comet ISON will fly through the sun’s atmosphere little more than a million km from the stellar surface. If the comet survives without breaking up it could emerge glowing as brightly as the Moon, visible near the sun in broad daylight.
Kindly share this, so that no one could miss that event!
Comet Lovejoy
by Abhinav Singhai
Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering
Arthur C Clarke (via eearth)