#rosetta spacecraft

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BREAKING NEWS: Local ESA spacecraft turns 22 Earth-years old, obtains a stroopwafel cake for launchiversary. Reports of stroopwafels jammed into fare gates at an all time high. Also, Philae eats a sandwhich.

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Rosetta: view of its last destination, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the day before the mission's dramatic end (September 29, 2016)

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This Video Was Made from 400,000 Photos of Comet 67p Taken by Rosetta

From 2014 to 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft followed the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67p) around space: collecting scientific data,

I Fucking LOVE Living In The Future.

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Greyscale photograph of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko 

taken by the Rosetta spacecraft

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We've Finally Figured Out Where Some of Earth's Mystery Xenon Came From

But we still haven't found it all.

The enigmatic noble gas xenon has been presenting scientists with puzzling riddles for decades, including how it got to Earth, and then its apparent disappearance since arriving.

But geochemists may have finally figured out where at least some of the xenon in Earth's atmosphere might have originated - and it's not from here.

New results from the Rosetta spacecraft reveal that almost a quarter of the xenon found in our atmosphere may have come from comets.

In addition to solving the long-held mystery about the origins of the rare gas, the new findings could help scientists understand how comets have potentially delivered other materials, such as water, to our planet.

"The xenon isotopic composition matches that of a primordial atmospheric component," says Bernard Marty, lead author and geochemist at the University of Lorraine, France. "The present-day Earth atmosphere contains 22 percent cometary xenon."

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Today is the 11th anniversary of Philae's landing and I had another drawing for it but everything that couldve gone wrong to celebrate today went wrong so heres rosetta eating a stroopwafel and philae eating a sandwich

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DO YOU REMEMBER

THE 21st NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER

HAPPY 11th ORBITAL INSERTION ANNIVERSARY MAVEN, YOU FREAK /POS

Featuring: MAVEN, Curiosity, Mars Express, Rosetta, Hera, Odyssey, Hera again, Europa Clipper, Ingenuity, Perseverance, MRO, TGO, Hope, Hera again again, Bepi, Opportunity, Spirit