In November 2014, a European Space consortium succeeded in landing a vehicle on a comet after a 10 year journey. What was the name of the mission?
Rosetta (spacecraft) Rosetta (spacecraft) Rosetta was a space probe built by the European Space Agency launched on 2 March 2004. Along with "Philae", its lander module, "Rosetta" performed a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). During its journey to the comet, the spacecraft flew by Mars and the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Šteins. It was launched as the third cornerstone mission of the ESA's Horizon 2000 programme, after "SOHO""Cluster" and "XMM-Newton". On 6 August 2014, the spacecraft reached the comet and performed a series of manoeuvres to eventually orbit the comet at distances of . On 12 November, its lander module
Off on a Comet Off on a Comet Off on a Comet () is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that is carried away by the comet there remain a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people do not realize at first what has happened, and consider the collision an earthquake. They first notice weight