In just seven day , the Rosetta ballistic capsule will smash into Comet 67P. A new visual image prove how it ’ll go down .
This television shows Rosetta ’s terminal two months of trajectory around Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko , jump on August 8 and ending on September 29 . The European Space Agency is cease the mission because the comet is now guide off from the sun , and the blank space probe lacks the free energy to keep on going . And by crash Rosetta in a controlled descent , ESA scientist stand to learn much about the comet and its active airfoil details .
The Rosetta spacecraft make it at the comet on August 6 , 2014 , and it has been spin around the white potato vine - shaped object ever since , snap picsandmaking measure . On November 12 , 2014 , the Philae lander detached from Rosetta , bouncing double on the surfaceand eventuallybecoming lodge into a dismal cranny beneath a craggy cliff . But now , after a little over two old age , the mission has come to an close .
By instigating a series of complex maneuvers , missionary work controllers are inching the probe ever closer to Comet 67P. On September 27 , the distance probe will leave its current , flypast orbits and commence a new orbital trajectory that will be used to line up Rosetta for its last descent .
On the even of September 29 , it ’ll maneuver onto its final , fateful course , initiate with a blood line from an ALT of 12 miles ( 19 klick ) . At that point , having lost all its impulse , it ’ll come down directly down without the need for any more external interposition . Rosetta will crash onto a site called Ma’at , which is littered with boulders and deep sinkholes — a utter last resting spot for what was an incredible and exciting missionary work .
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