Rosetta: ESA's comet chaser

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Nov 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esabu.112...10b&link_type=abstract

ESA Bulletin (ISSN 0376-4265), No. 112, p. 10 - 37 (2002)

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Space Missions, Comets, Rosetta

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Just as the discovery of the Rosetta Stone eventually led to the unravelling of the mysterious hieroglyphics, so Rosetta will help scientists to unravel the mysteries of comets. Billions of these giant chunks of ice still linger in the depths of space, the remnants of a vast swarm of objects that once surrounded our Sun and eventually came together to form planets. Virtually unchanged after 5 billion years in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, they still contain ices and dust from the original solar nebula. They also contain complex organic compounds which some scientists believe may have provided the raw material from which life on Earth evolved.

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