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  • Rosetta’s final images

    Rosetta’s final images

    Enjoy this compilation of with the last images taken by Rosetta’s high resolution OSIRIS camera during the mission’s final hours at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. As it moved closer towards the surface it scanned across an ancient pit and sent back images showing what would become its final resting place.

    Browse all images via the Archive Image Browser: https://imagearchives.esac.esa.int

    Credits: Images: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA – CC BY-SA 4.0
    Image compilation: ESA–D. C. Jimeno and M. P. Ayucar

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  • ESA Space Scientist Detlef Koschny explains why he originally built Rosetta in LEGO®

    ESA Space Scientist Detlef Koschny explains why he originally built Rosetta in LEGO®

    Space missions are complicated pieces of orbital choreography. When planning a mission, spacecraft engineers must calculate how to point the solar panels towards the Sun, the main antenna towards Earth and the instruments towards the target. ESA Space Scientist Detlef Koschny build a LEGO model of Rosetta mission in order to visualise these precise orientations.

    Copyright © Lightcurve Films/Maarten Roos, ESA, DLR, Europlanet, LEGO

  • ESA Space Scientist Detlef Koschny demonstrates the prototype LEGO® Philae lander

    ESA Space Scientist Detlef Koschny demonstrates the prototype LEGO® Philae lander

    Built using LEGO Mindstorms, the Philae lander model can be controlled using a home computer. It can rotate and move the drill up and down to simulate the behaviour of the real lander. As part of ESA’s Rosetta space mission, Philae will land on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014 to study its composition.

    Copyright © Lightcurve Films/Maarten Roos, ESA, DLR, Europlanet, LEGO