Five questions about Rosetta landing
Channel: OUresearch on YouTube
Date: 04/11/2014

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OU space scientists, who have spent 20 years researching and developing tools for the Rosetta mission, celebrated its landing on  comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014.

Rosetta was launched in 2004 and has since travelled around the Sun five times picking up energy from Earth and Mars to line up with its final destination.

Over the years, Professor Ian Wright and a team of researchers at the OU’s Centre for Physical and Environmental Sciences (CEPSAR) developed a suite of tools to monitor the atmosphere around the comet.

The tools have applications both in space and on earth.

In this video, the team describes how Rosetta came together and what they have learned.

Read more at: http://www.open.ac.uk/research/main/news/high-tech-spacecraft-meets-ancient-egyptian-monolith