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Rosetta Farewell

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The Rosetta ship ends today at noon its journey landing in the comet 67 P that has accompanied in recent times. He left French Guiana 12 years, 6 months and 28 days ago and has traveled in space 7 900 million km. Over the last two and a half years he has been analyzing comet 67P or Churyumov-Gerasimen and has collected 218.25 GB of scientific data. The navigation camera has received more than 16650 images and has been in contact with Earth in 14900 hours. The numbers confirm the intervention of those responsible for the mission: Rosetta is ESA's largest mission.

In the end he has also been called "grand finale". Although initially they intended to leave it lost in space or act against the comet, in the end they decided to concentrate slowly (it will be lowered to 90 cm/s). This will allow you to receive images of the comet surface very close, as well as perform some studies. However, hitting the surface of the comet will turn off and continue to travel with the comet further and further away from the Sun.

In any case, the mission will not end there, as researchers will continue to analyze the data sent and draw conclusions from them. The mission has surprised the composition of the kite, the discovery of complex molecules, the cycle of ice and water vapor... And the researchers are convinced that it will still give more.

In this sense, the mission has been considered an absolute success, although the Philae probe that Rosetta left on the surface of the comet worked in less time than desired. There, the probe had an accidental cometarization, which was stuck in a crack. In that place he did not collect the energy of the Sun and only collected the data for three days during the batteries. Then it went off. And soon Rosetta will turn off too. The last sign is expected at 13:18.

Read Elhuyar magazine's publications on Rosetta:

 

September 2016 6 - Rosetta finds Philae

June 2015 15 - Phila pulls out of the lethargy and sends the signal from the surface of comet 67P

Dec 2014 10 - Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimen water is not similar to that of land oceans

November 2014 14 - The Rosetta mission advances above difficulties

November 2014 12 - The staging of Philae, an exciting operation

November 2014 6 - Rosetta Mission: near comma landing

November 2014 1 - Interview with Ander Mª de Albeniz, mission engineer Rosetta: “Rosetta is very special: it’s like having a window in space”

November 2014 1 - Photo gallery: Comet road area 10 years

Sep 2014 15 - Rosetta's Philae probe will land at designated location J

August 2014 6 - Rosetta reaches its destination

July 2014 17 - The goal of miso Rosetta is a double core kite

January 2014 20 - Rosetta: lethargy ready to finish again

May 2003 1 - Rosetta's second goal