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RE: Rosetta mission

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Rosetta's last words: science descending to a comet

ESA's Rosetta completed its incredible mission on 30 September, collecting unprecedented images and data right until the moment of contact with the comet's surface.
Rosetta's signal disappeared from screens at ESA's mission control at 11:19:37 GMT, confirming that the spacecraft had arrived on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and switched off some 40 minutes earlier and 720 million kilometres from Earth.
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Rosetta's last image

On Friday, Rosetta's historic mission concluded with the spacecraft descending to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Rosetta was commanded to make a final series of unique scientific measurements very close to the comet, including taking images like this one, of its final resting place.
The Rosetta Stone was originally located in Sais, and we shall name the impact point as such so we can finally say that Rosetta has come home to Sais
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Rosetta Spacecraft

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Rosetta probe

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RE: Rosetta mission

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20 hours to go

The spacecraft is set to complete its historic mission in a controlled descent to the surface of comet 67P/C-G on 30 September, with the end of mission confirmation predicted to be within 20 minutes of 11:20 GMT (13:20 CEST).
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NASA Television to Provide Coverage of European Mission Comet Touchdown

NASA Television and the agency's website will air the conclusion of ESA's (European Space Agency's) Rosetta mission from 6:15 to 8 a.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 30, with NASA commentary, interviews and analysis of the successful mission. The Rosetta mission will end with the controlled decent of the spacecraft onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at around 7:20 a.m.
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How to follow Rosetta's grand finale

Rosetta is set to complete its historic mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on 30 September, with the end of mission confirmation predicted to be within 20 minutes of 11:20 GMT (13:20 CEST).
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Rosetta set for a grand finale by diving into cometary cave

Rosetta's final order is in: go caving. After two years orbiting 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency craft will crash into a cave on the comet's surface on 30 September.
Its target is a once-active pit nicknamed Deir el-Medina, after a village where pottery shards that provided detailed records of life in ancient Egypt were discovered in a similar-looking well. The cave sits in an area of deep pits, some of which occasionally erupt with spectacular dust jets.
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