Rosetta: Expect the Unexpected

Date: Wed, Apr 08, 2015 | 06:30 - 06:42 GMT | 08:30 - 08:42 CEST

Replay: Wed, Apr 08, 2015 | 15:00 - 15:12 GMT | 17:00 - 17:12 CEST

Type: ESA TV Exchange

Format: 16:9

Last year Rosetta spacecraft and its small companion Philae lander gave us some great emotional moments.

Rosetta is still flying around Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the weird duck-shaped comet, continuing its observations while Philae is quiet on the comet with hopes that it will wake up in the coming weeks.

The mission is not over but already more has been made on understanding comets than with any previous comet missions.

Each day the Rosetta spacecraft collects new information and this data is sent daily across deep space to scientists all over Europe including those at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, where Rosetta’s ROSINA instrument was built to analyse the comet’s atmosphere.

So what Rosetta and Philae have taught us about comets? In fact a deluge of scientific data has already been gathered about 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Scientists now know about its surface and what it’s made from with some unexpected discoveries.

This video covers some of the surprising science results from Rosetta as the comet gets closer to the Sun and is constantly changing.

It includes interviews with Matt Taylor, Rosetta Project Scientist, ESA, Stefan Ulamec, Philae Lander Manager, DLR and Nicolas Thomas, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Bern.

  

More information at: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta

Preview and download:
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2015/04/Rosetta_s_science_expect_the_unexpected

Script:
EbS97673.doc

Satellite Parameters: Eutelsat 9A at 9 degrees E, transponder 59, downlink frequency 11900.1 horizontally polarised, symbol rate 27,500 FEC 2/3.