Seminar
Cometary science and the Rosetta mission 1: Rosetta, a voyage to a comet and to our origins

Dr. Michael Küppers

Abstract

Series: XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: Solar System Exploration

Topic: Cometary Science and the Rosetta Mission.

Lecture 2: Rosetta, a voyage to a comet and to our origins.

In this second talk, Dr. Küppers gives an overview of the Rosetta mission, from its launch in 2004 until the end of the mission, in September 2016, only a month before the celebration of this Winter School. The talk includes information on the instruments on-board the spacecraft, the two fly-byes to asteroids Steins and Lutetia, and the results obtained from the observations of comet 67P/C-G. 

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Cometary science and the Rosetta mission 1: Rosetta, a voyage to a comet and to our origins
Dr. Michael Küppers
European Space Astronomy Centre, Spain
Tuesday November 8, 2016 - 12:00 GMT  (Aula)
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