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Anticyclone over the South Pacific
Swirling clouds over the South Pacific
 
16 November 2009   Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it.
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Rosetta closes in on home for the last Earth swingby
Rosetta sees a living planet
 
13 November 2009   Images and data taken just before closest approach were downloaded this morning, and they show the lights of North America in the night and a glowing Southern Hemisphere.
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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby
 
13 November 2009   This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
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Rosetta darting across the night
First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home
Rosetta approach on schedule
Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae
Follow Rosetta’s final Earth boost

 
 Herschel: ESA's giant infrared observatoryHerschel in space, close up on its mirror
Planck: looking back at the dawn of timePlanck cruises to L2
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ESA's comet chaser
Searching for exoplanetsCOROT will dig into stellar interiors
Looking at VenusArtist's impression of Venus Express orbiting Venus
At Saturn and TitanViews on approach to Saturn
Looking at Mars
ESA's gamma-ray astronomy missionArtist's view of Integral
 
 
 
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