АМС “Rosetta“ : Mission to Land on a Comet [720p] [3D converted]

Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet-- and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land a probe on it, two firsts. Rosetta’s goal is to learn the primordial story a comet tells as it gloriously falls to pieces. Comets are primitive leftovers from our solar system’s ’construction’ about 4.5 billion years ago. Because they spend much of their time in the deep freeze of the outer solar system, comets are well preserved—a