Rosetta spacecraft to give 'final kiss' to comet on crash-landing - Reuters

The European spacecraft Rosetta will crash-land on the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and end its 12-year space odyssey on Sept. 30, France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) said on Thursday.
法国国家太空研究中心于周四表示,来自欧洲的航天器 Rosetta 将会在9月30日迫降至小行星 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 表面,并结束其长达12年的太空探索之旅。

Rosetta has helped scientists better understand how the Earth and other planets are formed. The spacecraft detected key organic compounds in a comet, bolstering the notion that comets delivered the chemical building blocks for life long ago to Earth and throughout the solar system.
Rosetta 帮助科学家更好地了解了地球和其他行星是如何形成的。它在一颗彗星上探测到了关键的有机化合物;这有力地支持了有关理论,即:在很久以前,彗星就向地球和太阳系运送了形成生命所需的基本化学物质。

The spacecraft will join Philae, a lander that touched down on the same comet in July 2015 and has not responded to technicians since.
Rosetta 将会在彗星上陪伴其发射的太空着陆器 Philae,该着陆器自2015年7月到达彗星表面后就与地球再无联系。

"What better end to Rosetta than to give a final kiss to her comet?" said Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the CNES.
“对 Rosetta 来说,还有比一次对彗星的最终之吻更好的结局吗?”CNES 主席 Jean-Yves Le Gall 表示。


关于 Rosetta
Rosetta 于2004年从法属圭亚那发射,由 Ariane 5 运载,飞往外太阳系。它的旅行借助了三次地球引力(2004、2007、2009)和一次火星引力(2007),并在途中遇到了两颗小行星 (2867) Steins (2008) 和 (21) Lutetia (2010) 。


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Rosetta Orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Copyright: ESA, image by AOES Medialab

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