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Gerhard Schwehm, Mission Manager for Rosetta said, "It looks like a typical asteroid, but it is really fascinating how much we can learn from just the images. This is our first science highlight; we certainly have a lot of promising science ahead of us. I’m already looking forward to encountering our next diamond in the sky, the much bigger Lutetia."
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The OSIRIS team expects that the images that they will retrieve from the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) will be of comparable resolution. This will add to the detailed colour information and hence to knowledge of the surface composition.
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Science team members noted that the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) appears to have switched to safe mode a few minutes before closest approach, but switched back on after a few hours.
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It looks sort of like an arrowhead to me.
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Planetary Society Weblog, 2 items:

Next Ladawalla Live Web Chat (in about 10 minutes) focuses on Steins and Rosetta. Article Ustream live web chat

More Steins images. Article
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Rosetta has been falling back towards the sun for awhile. It is crossing the orbit of the asteroid Lutetia, which it will encounter in the summer of 2010. It will cross Stein's orbit later this month.
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Rosetta will cross the orbit of Mars today. In a couple of months, it will encounter Earth and be flung toward Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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In a couple of months, it will encounter Earth and be flung toward Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Planetary Society Blog: Here comes Rosetta!

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Heads up! ESA's Rosetta comet-chasing mission is going to buzz by Earth again in less than a month. In anticipation of that event, Daniel Scuka has fired up the Rosetta blog again [...]
Remember two years ago? Planetary Society Blog: That's no near-Earth object, it's a spaceship!

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Indeed, today, the Minor Planet Center issued an Editorial Notice stating that further investigation has shown that the object briefly designated 2007 VN84 is, in fact, the Rosetta spacecraft [...]
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WHo knew that we had a space agency? Nobody. School kids surveyed the summer after Mars Express arrived, and the summer that Huygens landed were asked, here in the UK, to name any organisation involved in the exploration of space.

NASA, of course, came top. Don't know came second. Russia and ESA came third together - just one point more than 'Ares 51' and two points more than 'Men in Black'.

The kids here in the UK don't even know Rosetta exists.
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Nine days until Earth flyby. Here is the latest press release. For those who have been following this craft, there is really nothing new here.
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Rosetta, in the form of OSIRIS, has one of the most stunning cameras ever sent into deep space.

When Galileo flew past the Earth, twice, they took photos and created a movie
When NEAR flew past the Earth they took photos and created a movie
When MESSENGER flew past the Earth they took photos and created a movie

I've got £5 that says ESA, Rosetta and OSIRIS miss the opportunity to make a stunning, better than Full HD movie of an Earth flyby using OSIRIS. The opportunity to remind Europe that we paid a billion euros for this spacecraft that's out there.

OSIRIS has still not delivered a single item of data to the PDS or PSA since it launched five years ago.
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OSIRIS has still not delivered a single item of data to the PDS or PSA since it launched five years ago.
Have no fear, they'll do that early in 2008 just as they promised.

Um, what year is this again?
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I'm sure it'll get posted with the Smart 1 data.
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Nine days until Earth flyby. Here is the latest press release. For those who have been following this craft, there is really nothing new here.
check out the blog

http://webservices.esa.int/blog/blog/5/
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Rosetta passed over the Pacific Ocean about five hours ago. The next time it will be even close to this area, it will be in orbit around Churyumov-Gerasimenko (or on it).
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