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Rosetta spacecraft over Earth

by

ESA/C.Carreau/Novapix

Reference

e-son30-00107

Date

2008-01-06

Artist's impression of Rosetta spacecraft over Earth. The aim of the transit is to use the planet's gravity to modify the speed and the trajectory of the probe. The European Space Agency spacecraft was launched on March 02 2004 and intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta is expected to enter in orbit around the comet for releasing a lander in May 2014.