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Rosetta’s Philae lander on comet nucleus

Rosetta’s Philae lander descending onto comet nucleus

Rosetta orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Comet Halley's nucleus as seen by Giotto

Giotto in 1985, with Whipple shield at bottom

Giotto approaching the nucleus of Halley's Comet

Anticyclone over the South Pacific

Rosetta lift-off

Earth from Rosetta 12:47 UTC 5 March 2005 (2)

Rosetta: Europe’s comet chaser

Rosetta approaching its ultimate destination: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Rosetta orbits comet with lander on its surface

The Rosetta orbiter - spacecraft design

Artist's impression of Giotto and Comet Halley

Reproduction of original plates of Comet Halley 25 May 1910

Ariane 1 V14 launch with Giotto

Ariane-1 with Giotto on board

Rosetta's wings unfurling

Comet approach

Rosetta - the comet chaser

Rosetta’s deep-space journey

Rosetta preparation

Earth from Rosetta 13:08 UTC 5 March 2005

Giotto's various instruments revealed

Flight unit in preparation of solar simulation at INTESPACE in the Space Center in Toulouse.

Rosetta swings by Mars

Giotto ready for the solar simulation test

Giotto launch preparations

Rosetta preparation

Rosetta swings by Earth

Rosetta and its instruments

Deep-space hibernation before comet rendezvous

Ejecta plume from Tempel 1, 13 seconds after impact

Rosetta at Europe's Spaceport

Cutaway of the Giotto spacecraft.

Rosetta swings by Earth

Rosetta Flight Model thermal vacuum tests

Manipulation of Rosetta’s Lander at CSG facilities

Earth from Rosetta 12:47 UTC 5 March 2005

Artist's impression of the Rosetta orbiter and lander

Giotto and Comet Grigg-Skjellerup approaching each other

NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft lifts off

Deep Impact fly-by and impactor spacecraft

Artist's impression of Rosetta asteroid fly-by

Earth from Rosetta 12:45 UTC 5 March 2005

Manipulation of Rosetta's lander at CSG facilities

Comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup observed on 24 May 1987

False-colour representation of comet brightness (still)

Artist's impression of fly-by spacecraft with impactor

XMM-Newton detects water on Tempel 1

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