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Where life began
 
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Amino acids
Amino acids, the 'building blocks' of life, may form in dust grains in the space between the stars.

Credits: ESA 2002. Illustration by Medialab.
 
 
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The nucleus of Comet Halley
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The nucleus of Comet Halley as seen from the Giotto spacecraft by the Halley Multicolour Camera.

Credits: MPAe, Lindau
 
 
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Life on the satellite of a giant planet


Credits: ESA 2001. Illustration by Medialab.
 
 
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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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An image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Our Solar System is home to one star, nine planets and dozens of planetary satellites. It also contains millions of asteroids and comets – the left-over debris from the cosmic construction site that created the planets and their moons.

Rosetta’s task is to study these primitive building blocks at close quarters so that scientists may gain new insights into the events that took place 4600 million years ago, during the birth of Earth and its planetary neighbours.

Credits: ESA and European Southern Observatory

 
  Last update: 9 November 2007 


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