Presentation: November 2014

This  months's AE presenter: David Hartman
Date of presentation:  17-November-2014
Subject: the Rosetta Mission
Description: Provided a brief status of the Rosetta mission and Philae probe.
The Rosetta mission reached its goals of intercepting 67P and landing Philae probe on its surface. This was an 11 year mission, and included fly-bys of earth and Mars.  The lander was successful in photographing the surface, but it came to rest in the shadow of a cliff. Lack of power from its solar cells eventually resulted in loss of contact with the lander. The AE presentation included details of he mission including efforts to recover the lander. Photos of the comet were displayed and discussed.

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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