This animation of NAVCAM images follows the spacecraft’s approach to the comet from a distance of about 800 km on 1 August to a distance of about 62 km on 22 August 2014.
The movie is a showcase of over one thousand NAVCAM images released today in ESA’s Archive Image Browser: http://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/
Rosetta and Philae were ready for their biggest challenge yet: landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. As Rosetta bid her lander farewell and sent him to the comet’s surface, the whole world looked on, anxious to see what would happen next…
Suis Paxi aux frontières du système solaire pour découvrir le monde des comètes et en apprendre plus sur l’incroyable mission « Rosetta » sur la comète 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Dans cette vidéo, destinée aux enfants de 6 à 12 ans, Paxi emmène les enfants à la découverte des comètes et de Rosetta, l’incroyable engin spatial de l’ESA qui vole aux côtés de la comète 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko et qui va essayer, le 12 novembre 2014, d’y envoyer un petit robot.
Cette vidéo est la troisième d’une série d’animations dans lesquelles Paxi, la mascotte du bureau de l’éducation de l’ESA, vous fait découvrir différents aspects du système solaire, de l’Univers, des secrets de la planète Terre et bien plus encore.
Credit: ESA; produced by Science Office, illustrations by Kaleidoscope Design, NL
Begleite Paxi an den Rand unseres Sonnensystems, entdecke das Reich der Kometen und lerne mehr über die erstaunliche Mission Rosetta zum Kometen 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
In diesem Video, das sich an Kinder zwischen 6 und 12 Jahren richtet, nimmt Paxi Kinder mit auf die Reise um mehr über Kometen und die spektakuläre Mission „Rosetta“ zu lernen: Die Raumsonde der ESA, die um den Kometen 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko kreist und am 12 November 2014 versuchen wird ein Mini-Labor darauf zu landen.
Dieses Video ist die dritte einer Serie von Animationen mit Paxi, dem Maskottchen von ESA-Education, in denen verschiedene Aspekte unseres Sonnensystems, das Universum, Geheimnisse des Planeten Erde und vieles andere thematisiert werden.
Credit: ESA; produced by Science Office, illustrations by Kaleidoscope Design, NL
Seguite Paxi ai confini del Sistema Solare per scoprire il mondo delle comete e saperne di più sull’incredibile missione di Rosetta verso la cometa 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
In questo video, indirizzato a bambini tra i 6 e i 12 anni, Paxi porta i bambini alla scoperta di comete e Rosetta, l’incredibile sonda dell’ESA che vola insieme alla cometa 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko e che proverà, il 12 Novembre 2014, a rilasciare un veicolo d’atterraggio su di essa.
Questo video è il terzo di una serie di animazioni in cui Paxi, la mascotte dell’Education Office dell’ESA, descrive diverse caratteristiche del Sistema Solare, dell’Universo, i segreti del pianeta Terra e molto altro.
Credit: ESA; produced by Science Office, illustrations by Kaleidoscope Design, NL
Volg Paxi tot de rand van onze zonnestelsel om een wereld van kometen te ontdekken, en te leren over de verbazingwekkende Rosetta missie naar de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
In deze video, met als doelgroep kinderen tussen de 6 en 12 jaar oud, neemt Paxi kinderen met hem mee om kometen en Rosetta te ontdekken, de verbazingwekkende ESA ruimtevaartuig die naast komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko vliegt en op 12 November 2014 een poging zal doen om een lander te landen.
Deze video is de derde in een animatie serie waarin Paxi, de mascotte van ESA Education, verschillende aspecten van het zonnestelsel, het universum, de geheimen van planeet aarde, en nog veel meer zal toelichten.
Credit: ESA; produced by Science Office, illustrations by Kaleidoscope Design, NL
Sigue a Paxi hasta los confines del Sistema Solar para descubrir el mundo de los cometas y aprender sobre la asombrosa misión Rosetta hacia el cometa 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
En este vídeo, destinado a niños de entre 6 y 12 años, Paxi se lleva a los niños con él a descubrir cometas y Rosetta, la asombrosa nave de la ESA que vuela junto al cometa 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko al que intentará, el 12 de Noviembre 2014, aterrizar mediante un módulo de aterrizaje.
Este vídeo es el tercero de una serie de animaciones en las que Paxi, la mascota de la Oficina de Educación de la ESA, explica diferentes aspectos del Sistema Solar, el Universo, los secretos del planeta Tierra y mucho más.
Credit: ESA; produced by Science Office, illustrations by Kaleidoscope Design, NL
The Philae lander may be in hibernation mode on the surface of a comet, but it’s still very much alive in the hearts of the Comet Hunters, the team who helped Rosetta become the most famous space mission since the Moon landings. In this special edition of Euronews Space we have an extended episode of our Comet Hunters series, filmed during and after the comet landing at ESA’s base in Darmstadt and at the DLR’s Philae control room in Köln.
El módulo de aterrizaje Philae puede que esté en modo hibernación allá lejos, en la superficie del cometa, pero aún está muy vivo en los corazones de los Cazadores de cometas. El equipo ha hecho que Rosetta se convierta en una de las misiones espaciales más famosas desde que el hombre llegó a la Luna. En esta edición especial de Space, en Euronews, veremos un largo episodio de nuestra serie Cazadores de cometas, filmado durante y después del aterrizaje de Philae en el cometa desde la base de la Agencia Espacial Europea en Darmstadt y en la sala de control del Centro Aeroespacial Alemán en Colonia.
Mercoledì 12 novembre, il D-Day per Rosetta e Philae: un giorno che i cacciatori di comete non dimenticheranno mai.
Matt Taylor, scienziato del progetto Rosetta, ESA: “Ieri iero rilassato, ora invece c’è questo aumento esponenziale di stress ed eccitazione. Sono al massimo adesso”. “Questa è la mia previsione per oggi, ecco quanto mi sento sicuro”, dice Taylor mostrando un tatuaggio del lander sulla gamba.
Paolo Ferri, direttore della missione Rosetta, ESA: “Sono estremamente stressato, la notte non è trascorsa tranquillamente come speravo. Le attività di preparazione del lander hanno richiesto molto più tempo, abbiamo dovuto rifare delle cose”.
Ma poi la buona notizia è arrivata, Rosetta ha ricevuto un segnale da Philae, e poi, dopo alcune ore di tensione, la missione è compiuta. Matt Taylor, scienziato del progetto Rosetta, ESA: “Siamo atterrati su una cometa!”
Το ρομποτικό σκάφος Philae προσγειώθηκε στον κομήτη 67P γράφοντας μία νέα σελίδα στη διαστημική ιστορία
To euronews είχε εξ αρχής προνομιακή πρόσβαση στο κέντρο ελέγχου των επιχειρήσεων. Η προσεδάφιση του Philae στον κομήτη κέντρισε το ενδιαφέρον όλου του κόσμου. Η 12η Νοεμβρίου είναι μία ημέρα που η επιστημονική ομάδα δεν πρόκειται να ξεχάσει ποτέ. Πάμε να γνωρίσουμε τους πρωταγωνιστές της επιχείρησης Ροζέτα και να ρίξουμε μία παρασκηνιακή ματιά στο κέντρο των επιχειρήσεων στο Ντάρμσταντ της Γερμανίας. «Χθες ήμουν χαλαρός. Τώρα έχω και πάλι άγχος αλλά και μεγάλο ενθουσιασμό. Με το τατουάζ μου που απεικονίζει την προσεδάφιση του Philae κάνω την πρόβλεψή μου. Είμαι σίγουρος ότι όλα θα πάνε καλά», δηλώνει ο Ματ Τέιλορ, επιστήμονας της ESA στην επιχείρηση Ροζέτα. «Είχα απίστευτο άγχος καθώς η νύχτα δεν εξελισσόταν όσο ομαλά ήλπιζα. Οι ενέργειες για την προετοιμασία προσεδάφισης μας πήρανε περισσότερο χρόνο, γιατί έπρεπε να ξανακάνουμε κάποια πράγματα», διηγείται ο διευθυντής του εγχειρήματος Πάολο Φέρι. Τέλος καλό, όλα καλά. Η κούραση και το στρες εξαφανίστηκαν, όταν η Ροζέτα έλαβε το πρώτο σήμα από το ρομποτικό σκάφος Philae. Οι συντελεστές πανηγύρισαν τη μεγάλη επιτυχία τους. Την επόμενη ημέρα τα τηλεοπτικά συνεργεία που πολιόρκησαν το κέντρο επιχειρήσεων άρχισαν να μαζεύουν τον εξοπλισμό τους. Στην αίθουσα ελέγχου του Ευρωπαϊκού Οργανισμού Διαστήματος η επιστημονική ομάδα προσπαθεί να εντοπίσει το Philae πάνω στον κομήτη. Το ρομποτικό σκάφος αναπήδησε δύο φορές και προσγειώθηκε σε μία σκοτεινή ρωγμή. Αυτό δεν το εμπόδισε να στείλει σημαντικές πληροφορίες.
Update on the Rosetta mission, including status of the Philae lander.
Hosted by Emily Baldwin – ESA Science Editor, with:
Andrea Accomazzo – ESA Rosetta Flight Director, ESOC
Stephan Ulamec – Philae Lander Manager, DLR
Matt Taylor – Rosetta Project Scientist, ESA
Philippe Gaudon – CNES Rosetta Project Manager, SONC
Holger Sierks – PI for OSIRIS, Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research
Valentina Lommatsch – DLR-Lander Control Center, mission team
Jeff Grossman – OSIRIS-REx Program Scientist, NASA
Gordon Johnston – OSIRIS-REx Program Scientist, NASA
The third of a trio of music videos released by ESA to celebrate the first ever attempted soft landing on a comet by ESA’s Rosetta mission.
Vangelis, the world-renowned musician, has composed this piece of music specially for ESA and inspired by the Rosetta mission. Vangelis’s music is often linked to themes of science, history and exploration, and he is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, composing scores for the films Antarctica, Blade Runner, 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Alexander, and the use of his music in the documentary series Cosmos, by Carl Sagan.
Vangelis said: “Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.”
Video copyright: ESA/Vangelis
Original music: Vangelis
The first of a trio of music videos released by ESA to celebrate the first ever attempted soft landing on a comet by ESA’s Rosetta mission.
Vangelis, the world-renowned musician, has composed this piece of music specially for ESA and inspired by the Rosetta mission. Vangelis’s music is often linked to themes of science, history and exploration, and he is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, composing scores for the films Antarctica, Blade Runner, 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Alexander, and the use of his music in the documentary series Cosmos, by Carl Sagan.
Vangelis said: “Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.”
Video copyright: ESA/Vangelis Original music: Vangelis
Follow Paxi to the edge of the Solar System to discover the world of comets, and learn about the amazing Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
In this video, targeted at children aged between 6 and 12, Paxi takes kids with him to discovery comets and Rosetta, the amazing ESA spacecraft flying alongside comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that will attempt, on 12 November 2014, to release a lander onto it.
This video is the third of a series of animations in which Paxi, ESA’s Education mascot, touches on different aspects of the Solar System, the Universe, the secrets of planet Earth, and much more.
Rosetta’s deployment of Philae to land on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
The animation begins with Philae still on Rosetta, which will come to within about 22.5 km of the centre of the nucleus to release the lander on 12 November 2014.
The animation then shows Philae being ejected by Rosetta and deploying its own three legs, and follows the lander’s descent until it reaches the target site on the comet about seven hours later.
The animation is speeded up, but the comet rotation is true: in the time it takes for Philae to descend, the nucleus has rotated by more than 180º (the comet’s rotation period is 12.4 hours).
The final steps of Philae’s descent towards the comet are shown as seen by a hypothetical observer close to the landing site on the comet.
Acknowledgement: The background image of the sequence showing Philae closing in on the landing site was taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA) on 14 September 2014 from a distance of about 30 km.
Philae was provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI.
Rosetta’s deployment of Philae to land on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
The animation begins with Philae still on Rosetta, which will come to within about 22.5 km of the centre of the nucleus to release the lander on 12 November 2014.
The animation then shows Philae being ejected by Rosetta and deploying its own three legs, and follows the lander’s descent until it reaches the target site on the comet about seven hours later.
The animation is speeded up, but the comet rotation is true: in the time it takes for Philae to descend, the nucleus has rotated by more than 180º (the comet’s rotation period is 12.4 hours).
The final steps of Philae’s descent towards the comet are shown as seen by a hypothetical observer close to the landing site on the comet.
Finally, the animation shows Philae landing on the comet.
Because of the comet’s extremely low gravity, landing gear will absorb the small forces of landing while ice screws in the probe’s feet and a harpoon system will lock the probe to the surface. At the same time a thruster on top of the lander will push it down to counteract the impulse of the harpoon imparted in the opposite direction. Once it is anchored to the comet, the lander will begin its primary science mission, based on its 64-hour initial battery lifetime. The animation shows a number of the science instruments in action on the surface.
Acknowledgement: The background image of the sequence showing Philae closing in on the landing site was taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA) on 14 September 2014 from a distance of about 30 km.
Philae was provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI.
Rosetta orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and scanning its surface to make scientific measurements. The colours of the beams and their shape on the surface represent two different instruments imaging and analysing the comet.
The Rosetta orbiter has a total of 11 instruments to study the characteristics and environment of the comet. Rosetta is taking images of the comet at a variety of different wavelengths, measuring its gravity, mass, density, internal structure, shape and rotation, and assessing the properties of its gaseous, dust-laden atmosphere, or coma. It is also probing the surrounding plasma environment and analysing how it interacts with the solar wind.
Rosetta also carries a small lander, Philae, which will descend to the surface of the comet and make in situ measurements using its suite of 10 instruments.
The animation is not to scale; the comet is about 4.1 km wide and Rosetta is 32 m across including its solar wings, and it conducts scientific investigations at a range of altitudes. The comet shape is based on a true comet shape model.
Media and interested members of the public joined Rosetta mission experts online on Friday, 7 November for a briefing ahead of the historic comet landing on 12 November.
Programme:
Introduction: Emily Baldwin, ESA space science editor
Overview of media events: Jocelyne Landeau-Constantin, Head of ESOC communication office
Science from Rosetta so far: Matt Taylor, ESA Rosetta project scientist
Spacecraft status and operations timeline: Andrea Accomazzo, ESA Rosetta flight director
Key messages: Fred Jansen, ESA Rosetta mission manager
Q&A: all
Rosetta will release its Philae lander when approximately 22 kilometres from the centre of the comet. A signal confirming the separation will arrive at ground stations on Earth 28 minutes and 20 seconds later while the lander’s descent to the surface will take seven hours. On the way down, Philae will take a series of images and onboard instruments will sample the dust, gas and plasma close to the comet’s surface and measure any magnetic field.
Philae’s three lander legs will absorb the momentum of impact and use it to drive an ice screw in each foot into the surface. At the same time two harpoons will fire to lock the probe onto the surface and a small thruster on top will counteract the impulse. Once anchored to the nucleus, Philae will begin its primary science mission, based on its initial battery lifetime of 64 hours.
The SESAME experiment – which contains three instruments – includes one called CASSE, located in the lander’s feet. Harald KRUEGER, Principal Investigator of Rosetta’s SESAME experiment, explains how CASSE will use acoustic waves to determine properties of the comet’s soil.
Within hours of landing, we also hope to see the first ever images of a comet from its surface.
A summary of Rosetta’s journey – from its launch on 2 March 2004 – to the planned landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014. The journey has included four gravitational assists from Mars and the Earth, flybys with asteroids Steins and Lutetia, and the spacecraft’s temporary hibernation and successful wake up on 20 January 2014.
In May Rosetta put on the brakes and performed rendezvous manoeuvres for several months. During this period, images from the onboard cameras revealed the comet’s unusual ‘space duck’ shape.
Rosetta arrived at its destination on 6 August and became the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. The primary landing site was announced in September and Rosetta is now on schedule to release its Philae lander onto the comet’s surface in November.
This short animation explains the relative sizes of the Rosetta spacecraft and comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta is 32 m from tip to tip of the solar wings. The comet measures 4.1 km along its longest length, 128 times the width of Rosetta.
Unlike typical artist’s impressions, this image is scaled to convey the vast difference in size between Rosetta and the comet, even when the spacecraft is in a close 10 km orbit, as depicted here.
Rosetta reached 10 km distance from the comet centre by October 2014.
Die Rosetta-Sonde hat ihren Zielkometen Tschuri erreicht. Damit hat für die Wissenschaftler von der ESA, die Rosetta vor zehn Jahren ins All geschickt haben, ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit begonnen. Denn nun müssen sie den Kometen kartografieren und Daten sammeln, bevor sie im November den Landeroboter aus Rosetta ausklinken und auf Tschuri landen lassen. Dafür muss nun eine geeignete Landestelle gefunden werden – keine leichte Aufgabe. In der aktuellen Ausgabe von euronews Space zeigen uns die Kometen-Jäger in Darmstadt, wie man um einen Kometen fliegt, wie Rosetta ihr Ziel “sieht” und welche Bedeutung das ganze Projekt für die Wissenschaft und das Team hat.
The Rosetta mission is now on a race against time to prepare maps and collect data before the Philae lander is due to be sent down to the surface of comet 67P in November. In this edition of Euronews Space, the ‘Comet Hunters’ show us how to orbit a comet, how Rosetta ‘sees’ its target, and what the mission means to the world of science, and to this team in particular.
What happens after Rosetta arrives at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko? This animation describes the key dates for the next set of manoeuvres that will bring Rosetta even closer to the comet between August and October.
After arriving on 6 August, Rosetta will follow a set of two, three-legged triangular trajectories that require a small thruster burn at each apex. The legs are about 100 km long and it will take Rosetta between three and four days to complete each one.
The first triangle is conducted at a distance of about 100 km from the comet, the second at around 50 km. Then Rosetta will switch to a ‘global mapping phase’ at an altitude of about 30 km. During this period, it will make a ‘night excursion’, whereby the ground track of the spacecraft will be on the night-side of the comet (with the spacecraft still fully illuminated the Sun).
In October Rosetta will transfer to a close mapping phase to observe the comet from a distance of 10 km. The spacecraft will move even closer to dispatch lander Philae to the surface in November.
In this animation the comet is an artist’s impression and is not to scale with the spacecraft. The comet rotation is not representative (67P rotates once per 12.4 hours). Dates may be subject to change.
Extended version of Philae touchdown animation to include visualisations of some of the science experiments on the lander.
The animation begins with the deployment of Philae from Rosetta at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in November 2014. Rosetta will come to within about 10 km of the nucleus to deploy Philae, which will take several hours to reach the surface. Because of the comet’s extremely low gravity, landing gear will absorb the small forces of landing while ice screws in the probe’s feet and a harpoon system will lock the probe to the surface. At the same time a thruster on top of the lander will push it down to counteract the impulse of the harpoon imparted in the opposite direction. Once it is anchored to the comet, the lander will begin its primary science mission, based on its 64-hour initial battery lifetime. The animation then shows five of Philae’s 10 instruments in action: CIVA, ROLIS, SD2, MUPUS and APXS.
Rosetta’s Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI.
Animation using a sequence of raw NAVCAM frames from 8 May to 22 June. The NAVCAM has a 5-degree field of view and takes 1024 x 1024 12-bit per pixel images.