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Integrated optics are used in this special camera

View of the Golubkina crater on Venus

View of the volcano Sif Mons on Venus

Vue 3D du volcan Sif Mons sur Vénus

The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799

The ALICE ultraviolet imaging spectrometer

The Rosetta orbiter - spacecraft design

The nucleus of Comet Halley

An International Enterprise - Companies involved in building the Rosetta Orbiter and the ground antenna

The Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System

The Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System

The Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis

To communicate with Earth, Rosetta will use the impressive 35 metre parabolic antenna

The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer

The Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission

Siwa Flyby - Once again, the spacecraft is put back into passive cruise mode on its way to the large asteroid Siwa

Rosetta and its instruments

The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust

Rosetta’s Philae lander descending onto comet nucleus

During its eight-year trek to Comet Wirtanen, Rosetta will bounce around the inner Solar System

The Cometary Secondary Ion Mass

Deep-space hibernation before comet rendezvous

The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799

The Rosetta Plasma Consortium

Rosetta orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta

Otawara Flyby - The spacecraft goes into passive cruise mode on the way to asteroid Otawara

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

Relative sizes of Otawara, Siwa and other known asteroids

Rosetta spacecraft - artist's impression

The Rosetta spacecraft without thermal blankets

Rosetta swings by Mars

Manipulation of Rosetta’s Lander at CSG facilities

Rosetta at Europe's Spaceport

Manipulation of Rosetta's lander at CSG facilities

ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier

Ozone in a planet's spectrum may indicate the presence of life

Darwin's flotilla

Looking for Earth-like planets

Odissea Mission crew members land in Kazakhstan

Odissea Mission crew members land in Kazakhstan

Frank De Winne works with the Microgravity Science Glovebox

Etna eruption photographed by the Odissea mission to the ISS

View of Earth from ISS

Odissea crew shown here together with Expedition Five crew during a joint inflight call

Odissea crew shown here together with Expedition Five crew during a joint inflight call

Odissea crew shown here together with Expedition Five crew during a joint inflight call

Frank De Winne on board the ISS

Frank De Winne on board ISS

Frank De Winne à bord de l'ISS

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