Rosetta, the spacecraft that for the first time a comet researched, started on his last journey. About a few hours of crashes Rosetta on the comet where he since 2014 research did.
Rosetta is not just a spacecraft. Hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, followed the operations of Rosetta, and his ‘little brother’ of Philae, the komeetlander on the foot. And that was not only because the scientific a frontier project.
Rosetta, in 2004, launched towards a comet with the name 67P/Tsjoerjoemov-Gerasimenko. There he was in 2014 and sent when a small lander named Philae towards the comet. That had to include soil investigations and the results thereof doorseinen to Rosetta, which they then again towards the earth, was able to send.
That did not work very well. Philae landed on the comet, but bounced back up and ended up somewhere in the shade. The solar panels could be the battery not charging and Philae was only a short life. On Twitter lived thousands of people went along with whatever the last message seemed to be from the lander. The so-called communication between Rosetta and Philae spent people actually in turmoil.
Later turned out to have not lost everything. When the comet, a year later, nearer to the sun, got High again a short time, enough sunlight for its batteries can recharge and be back to work. Meanwhile, Rosetta is in search of his little brother. At the beginning of this month, at the very end, Philae found. He appeared in a cave to go to.
It seems like it had to be so. Shortly after Rosetta Philae has found, he plunges to death on the same comet. Around half past two this afternoon (Dutch time) Rosetta crash.
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