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  • Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

    Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

    NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover’s entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft’s descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered jet pack that helps fly the rover to its landing site), a camera on the rover looking up at the descent stage, a camera on the top of the aeroshell (a capsule protecting the rover) looking up at that parachute, and a camera on the bottom of the rover looking down at the Martian surface.

    The audio embedded in the video comes from the mission control call-outs during entry, descent, and landing.

    For more information about Perseverance, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/perseverance

    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

  • Philae landing: lander status and first descent image

    Philae landing: lander status and first descent image

    Highlights from coverage of ESA’s Rosetta mission soft-landing its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. Including the presentation of the first ROLIS image sent back by Philae as the lander descended to the surface of the comet.

    After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03 CET).

    More about Rosetta at:
    http://www.esa.int/rosetta

  • Philae landing: touchdown highlights

    Philae landing: touchdown highlights

    Highlights from coverage of ESA’s Rosetta mission soft-landing its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved.

    After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03 CET).

    More about Rosetta at:
    http://www.esa.int/rosetta

  • Philae’s mission at comet 67P

    Philae’s mission at comet 67P

    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.

    Also watch:
    Philae touchdown animation: http://youtu.be/BzfJlXHiagw
    Philae’s panoramic camera (CIVA): http://youtu.be/k1IFU6kxcD8
    Science on the comet: http://youtu.be/Pi0rwJktEF8

    Credits: ESA/ATG medialab

  • Using LEGO® to simulate ESA’s touchdown on a comet

    Using LEGO® to simulate ESA’s touchdown on a comet

    Comets are primeval leftovers from the origins of the Solar System. To fully understand these ancient objects and perhaps the origins of life on Earth, ESA’s Rosetta mission will rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. In November of that year, Rosetta’s Philae lander will touchdown on the comet and thoroughly investigate its composition.

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

  • 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

  • Cosmic Vision – See how Huygens landed on Titan

    Cosmic Vision – See how Huygens landed on Titan

    After an epic space journey, the European Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s moon Titan, a mysterious satellite that has perplexed astronomers for decades. On 14 January 2005, Huygens made the farthest touchdown of any human-built object sent to land on another world.