The Rosetta Mission: How the European Space Agency Landed on a Comet

The Rosetta Mission: How the European Space Agency Landed on a Comet

On November 12, 2014, after a ten-year journey through the Solar System and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta’s lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for the first time. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary feat, we celebrate by taking a look back over the mission's highlights.

Rosetta was a European Space Agency mission with contributions from its Member States and NASA. It studied Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for over two years, including delivering lander Philae to the comet’s surface. Philae was provided by a consortium led by the German Aeropace Center (DLR), the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), France's Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) and Italy's Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI).

Learn more about ESA's historic Rosetta Mission:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Rosetta/Mission_complete_Rosetta_s_journey_ends_in_daring_descent_to_comet

Credit: ESA - European Space Agency
Duration: 9 minutes
Release Date: Nov. 11, 2024

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