ROSETTA VOYAGE TO A COMET By John Hamilton XTREME SPACECRAFT A & D Xtreme An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
VOYAGE TO A COMET The Rosetta spacecraft was launched in 2004 After a 10-year journey in August 2014 it caught up with a large comet called 67P Churyumov Gerasimenko 4
It was the first time in history that a spacecraft intercepted a comet and followed it partway around the Sun It was also the first time a remote probe landed on a comet's surface Rosetta's history making mission is helping scientists better understand comets and the birth of our solar system 5
