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Rosetta probe : casting off Philae to the comet's nucleus

author: ESA/AOES Medialab/Novapix

reference: e-son30-00117

Image Size 300 DPI: 43 * 25 cm

Artist's impression of Rosetta spacecraft launched on March 02 2004 intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The probe is expected to release the Philae lander on the comet's surface in May 2014 ; the lander will study the composition of the comet's nucleus.

Keywords for this photo:

67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO - ASTRONOMY - COMET - ILLUSTRATION - LANDING - NUCLEUS - PHILAE - ROSETTA - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -