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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