'Face' discovered on comet

About 400 million kilometers from the Earth orbits the probe "Rosetta" is currently the comet "67P". In one picture face-like contours of the comet can now be seen.

The comet was discovered in 1969

The researcher Mark McCauchrean: "One consequence is that it makes this crazy form difficult to find a sufficiently large landing area. And the comet is an active body, he lets out gas and dust, and as we fly into. Not at high speed, the probe is not at risk, but also this factor we need to consider. It will not be easy, but we are ready. "Comets are probably the oldest largely unaltered remnants of the gigantic dust disk of the 4.6 billion years ago our solar system was formed. Tschuri, who's full name is "67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko" was discovered in 1969.

On Twitter saw the face for amusement. (Photo: Twitter / DLR_next) made ??the face for amusement on Twitter. (Photo: Twitter / DLR_next) "In this sharp detail we have never seen something," said the head of "Osiris" teams, Holger Sierks. Similarly, large areas can be seen. The European spacecraft Rosetta is currently preparing preparing to land on the comet Tschuri. Never before has landed on a comet, a spacecraft. Right now Rosetta orbiting the chunks in about 100 kilometers away, ten years she was on the road. Controlling the probe from the control center of the European Space Agency ESA in Darmstadt. The researcher Paolo Ferri: "We want to know especially about comets, what we can find out. The information that we have collected so far with Rosetta, have what we already knew about comets, multiplied a thousand fold. "Now is searched for a suitable place on the comet, on the Rosetta its lander Philae can settle. The problem is in addition to the low attraction of the comet and its very irregular appearance.

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