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8/14/2014

Topic Reading-Vol.855-8/14/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Rosetta and its mission-Space probe chases a comet around the Sun in a quest to find answers about our origins.
Comets are mysterious. Astronomers had been observing those space objects that become barely visible only in years or decades with their eyes and telescopes until the last century. Now, they’ve obtained knowledge and enabling technology that have a spacecraft flyby or even land on some of those tiny comets orbiting our solar system. What their aims?
Comets are small, icy objects left over from the formation of the solar system. Therefore, by analyzing the composition of comets is expected to provide unanswered questions such as how the solar system was formed or where life came from.
The spacecraft was launched 10 years ago, completed its two fly-by missions to asteroids, and had been hibernated for 31 months to save energy until January this year. Now it’s getting ready to land its 100kg lander on the comet whose size is no larger than that of Mt. Fuji.
Enjoy reading and learning about this ambitious probe.

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