CAP Squadron 80 Aerospace Education

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18 August 2014

Presentation: August 2014

This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 18-August-2014
Subject: ESA - The Rosetta Mission
Description: Jeff gave his August presentation on the Rosetta Mission, a project launched in 2004 by the ESA (European Space Agency). Rosetta is a mission to rendezvous with, and enter orbit around, the Jupiter-family comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and to perform observations of the comet's nucleus and coma.

An important milestone for this mission was met very recently on 6 August, when the Rosetta craft entered orbit around the comet. It is expected that the Philae lander will land on the comet's surface in November.

Most of the information and images were taken from the Rosetta Mission's page on the ESA website.

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