The Rosetta space probe lands on comet
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Roberto Galea
30.09.2016 16:02
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The Rosetta space probe lands on comet
The Rosetta probe, with on-board equipment constructed by Polish scientists has successfully touched down on a comet concluding a 12-year mission.
A file handout picture released 02 March 2004 by the Eureopan Space Agency (ESA) shows the computer generated image of space probe Rosetta (R) during the approach for landing on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Photo: EPA/ESA
The planned collision has put an end to the probe's research mission in space, during which the probe has gathered a lot of information about its destination, the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.
As Tomasz Ferenc reports, the probe's lander was equipped with some Polish-made instruments.
Professor Jerzy Grygorczuk, of the Space Research Centre at the Polish Academy of Sciences, who was involved in constructing one of the devices on board of the Philae lander said: "The Rosetta mission is not the first mission to a comet, but it has very special features. It's the first mission to a comet which is supplied with a lander."