Space geeks and science lovers everywhere can always count on having a brand new smile on their faces every time there's news regarding the latest space missions, such as Rosetta's mission in 2015; this February 14, the European Space Agency space probe will be approaching its target, comet 67P, by being as close as 6km away from its surface.
Ever since February 4, the Rosetta mission 2015 has been preparing for this close encounter, maneuvering the different new trajectories that will align the space probe properly for the approach this Saturday - a love story not too different from that of "Wall-E," with a robotic spacecraft being closer than ever to its target on Valentine's Day.
According to Space Flight Now, Rosetta's mission 2015 will be flying very close to its target comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, only a few months after having landed in a comet, turning into the first probe to ever do this. Of course, this is part of the spacecraft's ultimate target, as it's in a 17-month mission to study how comets work, and it's supposed to bring back the most detailed information about this, ever.
In the last days of January, the same website, Space Flight Now, reported that the latest findings of the Rosetta mission of 2015 included the fact that the comet is actually so porous it can float in an ocean, besides hosting different alien phenomena that still hasn't been unraveled by our Earthly scientists, which is truly humbling altogether.
In a recent interview with famous news outlet Deutsche Welle, professor Ralf Jaumann, a planetary scientist working closely with ESA (through the German Aerospace Center), spoke excitedly about the recent Rosetta mission 2015 discoveries, plus what's next for the European Space Agency, mentioning that there are different new missions plans towards Mars, the Red Planet.
It's not all about NASA, as Rosetta's mission of 2015 also makes things exciting for those who love to look into the stars!
