Rosetta's twelve-year journey in space
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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. Credits: ESA (This replaces a previously published version)
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Удивительно! Слава науке!
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A smart robot takes mankind on a comet ride.
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That's mind-blowing, thank you so much. I just have one question about the brilliant people who made this happen: what kind of shirts do they wear?
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I love this video! Very helpful! It's great that the mission was extended to september 2016 :-) The ESA scientists made such an incredible job!
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World's longest Kobe
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I really love space
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13 people were looking for a Justin Bieber video and ended up here...
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People are awesome when are cooperating and are ugly when are not
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That's awesome
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i bet everyone over there were like "it worked on Kerbal Space Program, lets take full scale!"
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nice shot
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Where can I find data on this mission? Anything from take off mass to velocities at different points?
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wow
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Why is there no sound? could you help with the sound? Thanks.
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Any TV docmunetaries covering this event?
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...looking fwd to the LIFE-span of satellite beyond 2015 ?! =)
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Lucky shot! Try it again
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it's amazing what we are capable of!
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...wow
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Complete bullshit. They have to use animation for the video that would possibly prove anything.
Furthermore, there is NO ATMOSPHERE in space for any rocket thrust to thrust against in order to move about in space. The space shuttle and Russian Space Station are still within Earth's ATMOSPHERE and you can slowly use thrust (they are only around 300 miles above Earth and not in so called "space").
The world is full of gullible idiots that live their lives and die without even understanding what is real and what is not.
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