The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft reached at its final destination after a long expedition of four billion miles. The fire began at 10 am GMT and continued till six minutes. It decreases the speed of Rosetta and compelled it to move with the velocity of a human being.
In the next few months, it is expected that Rosetta and its comet will leap towards the sun. Rosetta is the epithet applied to it because of a Rosetta stone, whereas C-G is a term coined for both the Rosetta and its comet. In November, a small 220-pound lander is to exit the spacecraft, set down on the comet and harpoon it to the surface. It would be the first time in the history that a spacecraft would smoothly land on a comet. According to Mathew Taylor, project scientist of the mission, it will go down and get the faultless matter from the surface of the comet. At the moment, the comet and its shadowing is 330 miles away from the sun. The travelling speed of the comet is reported as 35000 miles per hour. The basic thing is that its meeting point would be right at the position of the comet for the whole next year.
Comets comprise of ice, dust and rock which are basically the remnants from the creation of the solar system. Researchers are expecting to get some significant evidences regarding the formation of the solar system.
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