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LANDING ON A COMET - The Rosetta Mission

+++ Update +++ Rosetta's lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander's three feet can be seen in the foreground. DLR's Rosetta special http://www.dlr.de/en/rosetta ------------ After a 10-year journey of some

Why Study Comets?

Learn what comets are and how they inform us about the early solar system, in this video adapted from NASA. Comets, which are made of frozen gases, ice, dust, and rock, are typically in a deep freeze in the outer solar system. But when a comet nears the Sun, it loses streams of gases and forms a com

ScienceCasts: Close Approach Comets

In 2017 and 2018, three comets will pass near the Earth providing the opportunity to observe and study these icy interlopers. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. 4*P Morphology Campaign: http://www.psi.edu/41P45P46P