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Steins: A Diamond in The Sky

esa.int — The first images from Rosetta’s OSIRIS imaging system and VIRTIS infrared spectrometer were derived from raw data this morning and have delivered spectacular results.

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 7, 2008

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  • SIRBERUS, on 09/07/2008, -1/+3I think it looks more like 1 of the 4 chicken nugget shapes.
  • brianpeiris, on 09/07/2008, -0/+2These images were taken by the Rosetta spacecraft:
    Here's why it's important:
    The Rosetta mission will achieve many historic firsts.
    * Rosetta will be the first spacecraft to orbit a comet’s nucleus.
    * It will be the first spacecraft to fly alongside a comet as it heads towards the inner Solar System.
    * Rosetta will be the first spacecraft to examine from close proximity how a frozen comet is transformed by the warmth of the Sun.
    * Shortly after its arrival at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the Rosetta orbiter will despatch a robotic lander for the first controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus.
    * The Rosetta lander’s instruments will obtain the first images from a comet’s surface and make the first in situ analysis to find out what it is made of.
    * On its way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Rosetta will pass through the main asteroid belt, with the option to be the first European close encounter with one or more of these primitive objects.
    * Rosetta will be the first spacecraft ever to fly close to Jupiter’s orbit using solar cells as its main power source.

    from http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/ESAX1F7708D_0. ...

    Friggin' awesome if you ask me. Rosetta is taking a tour of our solar system, helping us gain new insights into its formation *and* it's sending back wonderful images like this one.

    "Rosetta will allow scientists to look back 4600 million years to an epoch when no planets existed and only a vast swarm of asteroids and comets surrounded the Sun."
  • inactive, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1That's a very jewish sounding headline.
  • AmnesiacJack, on 09/07/2008, -1/+2Even for a space / science junkie like me this is still pretty uninteresting.

    The Hayabusa probe from a few years ago out classes this by a long shot.
  • inactive, on 09/07/2008, -2/+3Let's make Africans become astronauts so we can exploit them to mine this thing.

    No?
  • inactive, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1Mmmmmm, nuggets!
    NOM NOM NOM!
  • beyondinfinity, on 09/07/2008, -1/+1Lucy?

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