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    Rosetta’s twelve-year journey in space

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    • Title Rosetta’s twelve-year journey in space
    • Released: 11/10/2013
    • Length 00:02:05
    • Language English
    • Footage Type Animation
    • Copyright ESA
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      This animation tracks Rosetta’s journey through the Solar System, using gravity slingshots from Earth and Mars to reach its final destination: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta made three flybys of Earth, on 4 March 2005, 13 November 2007 and 13 November 2009, and one of Mars, on 25 February 2007. Rosetta has also visited two asteroids, taking extensive close-up images of 2867 Steins on 5 September 2008 and 21 Lutetia on 10 July 2010. Once the spacecraft is woken up from deep space hibernation on 20 January 2014, it will head for rendezvous with the comet in May. In November the Philae probe will be deployed to the comet surface. Rosetta will follow the comet to its closest distance to the Sun on 13 August 2015 and as it moves back towards the outer Solar System. The nominal mission end is December 2015.

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    • Mission Rosetta
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    • Keywords Animations, Planet, Solar system, Space Exploration

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