ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 An interesting lone boulder can be seen at the center of this image on September 16 from 14.5 kilometers (9 miles). ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 ...

Yesterday, the Rosetta probe began a 13-hour free fall that ended in a (relatively) gentle crash at the Ma’at landing site at 6:39 a.m. ET on Friday.

ESA guided Rosetta to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Sept. 30 last year, ending its 12-year mission.

Rosetta’s crash site is not too far from Philae’s first and final touchdown sites after its bumpy landing in 2014. All three sites are on the smaller of Comet 67P’s two lobes.

New images have revealed more jets of water vapour (shown) on Comet 67P. They were revealed in a blog post for Esa, headquartered in Paris.

The first images from Rosetta’s OSIRIS imaging system and VIRTIS infrared spectrometer were derived from raw data this morning and have delivered spectacular results. “Steins looks like a ...

Back to Article List Rosetta images asteroids ESA's Rosetta spacecraft collects preliminary data on asteroids 21-Lutetia and 2867-Steins.Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands ...

The way some images have been drip-fed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission at Comet 67P should prompt a rethink on data policies, the organisation's chief says.