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10 years on the road: Rosetta entered the orbit of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko – NIA-Kuzbass

07.08.2014 10:36
10 years on the road: Rosetta entered the orbit of the comet Чурюмова-Герасименко

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«Rosetta” after 10 years of being in space reached the ultimate goal. On the eve of the European Space Agency to tell the world that the automatic interplanetary station was launched into orbit around the comet 67P (Churyumov- Gerasimenko).
is worth noting that this comet was discovered by Soviet scientists in the middle of the last century. The uniqueness of this experiment is that this is the first output of the research spacecraft into orbit around such a cosmic body.
In a joint project of Europe and the United States invested 1.3 billion euros.
According Vesti.Ru, “Rosetta” broke the path of 6.4 billion kilometers.
November 11 “Rosetta ” will make the operation on the descent to the surface of the research module “Fila “. The main purpose of the flight
automatic interplanetary station – to obtain data on the early stages of the Universe. Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko preserved almost in its original state since its inception 4.5 billion years ago.

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