Rosetta wallpaper Wallpaper instructions:   Click on the link with the required wallpaper image size (1024x768 for most PCs). A separate window with the image will open. Right-click on the image and select Set As Wallpaper/Background.     Rosetta reaches its cometary target   After entering orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, the spacecraft will release a small lander onto the icy nucleus, then spend the next two years orbiting the comet as it heads towards the Sun.   1024x768     Fly-by of Mars   Rosetta flies past Mars in February 2007 at a distance of about 200 kilometres, obtaining some science observations. An eclipse of the Earth by Mars lasts for about 37 minutes, causing a communication blackout.   1024x768   1280x1024     Rosetta with Earth in the background   Rosetta first travels away from its home planet and then encounters Earth again, a year after launch, in March 2005. After the first fly-by of Earth, Rosetta heads to Mars and then returns to Earth twice in November 2007 and November 2009 for its second and third fly-bys of our planet.   1024x768   1280x1024     Rosetta in deep space   Travelling throuhg deep space, the spacecraft goes into hibernation between May 2011 - January 2014. During this period, Rosetta records its maximum distances from the Sun (about 800 million kilometres) and Earth (about 1000 million kilometres).   1024x768   1280x1024       Last update: 24 September 2004 Related links  •  Models (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMEO5T1VED_index_0.html)  •  Screensavers (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMB11T1VED_index_0.html) Wallpaper  •  Wallpapers (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMXC1T1VED_index_0.html)  •  Mars Express wallpaper (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMN6RUZJND_foryou_0.html)