Rosettas Twelve Year Journey to Land on a Comet, ESA Space Science HD Video
Visit my website at using gravity slingshots from Earth and Mars to reach its final destination, Rosetta traces a wandering path. The spacecraft has already completed three flybys of Earth: on March 4, 2005, November 13, 2007 and November 13, 2009 as well as a flyby of Mars, on February 25, 2007. If that was not enough, Rosetta has also had two asteroid encounters: 2867 Steins, on September 5, 2008 and 21 Lutetia, on July 10, 2010. Rosetta is currently in hibernation mode unt
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