Rosettas twelve year journey in space
This animation tracks Rosetta s journey through the Solar System, using gravity slingshots from Earth and Mars to reach its final destination: Comet 67P, ChuryumovGerasimenko. Rosetta made three flybys of Earth, on 4 March 2005, 13 November 2007 and 13 November 2009, and one of Mars, on 25 February 2007. Rosetta has also visited two asteroids, taking extensive closeup images of 2867 Steins on 5 September 2008 and 21 Lutetia on 10 July 2010. Once the spacecraft is woken up from deep space hibernation on 20
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