Comet mission hopes to uncover Earth's origins

"A European spacecraft that will hunt down a comet in search of clues to the origin of life on Earth will blast off tomorrow from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The Rosetta probe will take 12 years to catch up with Churyumov-Gerasimenko before becoming the first spacecraft to make a sof...

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Autor principal: Henderson, M
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2004
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General Physics Research
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/720747
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description "A European spacecraft that will hunt down a comet in search of clues to the origin of life on Earth will blast off tomorrow from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The Rosetta probe will take 12 years to catch up with Churyumov-Gerasimenko before becoming the first spacecraft to make a soft, controlled landing on a comet's nucleus" (1 page).
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spelling cern-7207472019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/720747engHenderson, MComet mission hopes to uncover Earth's originsGeneral Physics Research"A European spacecraft that will hunt down a comet in search of clues to the origin of life on Earth will blast off tomorrow from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The Rosetta probe will take 12 years to catch up with Churyumov-Gerasimenko before becoming the first spacecraft to make a soft, controlled landing on a comet's nucleus" (1 page).PRESSCUT-2004-061oai:cds.cern.ch:7207472004
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Comet mission hopes to uncover Earth's origins
title Comet mission hopes to uncover Earth's origins
title_full Comet mission hopes to uncover Earth's origins
title_fullStr Comet mission hopes to uncover Earth's origins
title_full_unstemmed Comet mission hopes to uncover Earth's origins
title_short Comet mission hopes to uncover Earth's origins
title_sort comet mission hopes to uncover earth's origins
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