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Now You Can See Every Comet Photo (& More) from Europe's Rosetta Probe. Enjoy!
June 26, 2018 | ArticleNearly 100,000 high-resolution images of a comet, two asteroids, Earth and Mars are now all available to the public online.
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More Comet Samples Needed to Understand Solar System's History, Scientists Say
May 29, 2018 | ArticleMore samples of comets are urgently needed to better understand the early history of the solar system, say researchers analyzing comet dust brought back to Earth by NASA’s Stardust mission in 2006.
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The Truth Behind This Amazing Video from the Surface of a Comet
April 25, 2018 | ArticleA Twitter user managed to turn 25 minutes worth of images from the ESA's comet lander into a dramatic short film.
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Dust Storm in Space: Rosetta Probe Captured Comet Blizzard (Photo)
January 22, 2018 | ArticleA newly released image, taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, depicts hundreds of dust particles barreling away from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which the probe orbited from August 2014 to September 2016.
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NASA Shortlists Titan Quadcopter, Comet Sample-Return Concepts for 2020s Mission
December 20, 2017 | ArticleNASA has picked two innovative mission ideas, a comet sample-return mission and a quadcopter concept to explore Saturn's big moon Titan, as its finalists for its next solar system mission to launch in the mid-2020s.
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Comets May Have Delivered Many of Life's Building Blocks to Early Earth
June 08, 2017 | ArticleA new study suggests that about 20 percent of the noble gas xenon in Earth's atmosphere was delivered by comets long ago. And these icy wanderers likely brought lots of other stuff to our planet as well, researchers said.
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Comet 67P Found to Be Producing Its Own Oxygen in Deep Space
May 12, 2017 | ArticleThe finding shows that oxygen can be generated in space without the need for life, and could influence how researchers search for signs of life on exoplanets.
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Rosetta Spacecraft: To Catch a Comet
February 27, 2017 | ReferenceRosetta is a spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency with a 10-year mission to rendezvous with a comet.
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Comet 67P: Target of Rosetta Mission
February 24, 2017 | ReferenceComet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is a small body visited by the Rosetta spacecraft in the first mission to land on a comet.
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Dusty Avalanches Probably Cause Comet Outbursts
October 18, 2016 | ArticleComet outbursts are likely caused by landslides rather than pressure-based eruptions from the icy bodies' interiors, a new study suggests.
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