{"id":8480,"date":"2014-08-05T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8480"},"modified":"2014-08-05T10:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:03:33","slug":"rosetta-nears-comet-rendezvous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8480","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta nears comet rendezvous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\" target=\"_blank\">Rosetta<\/a>\u00a0spacecraft will rendezvous with \u00a0Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday. \u00a0Find lots of info, images, videos, etc of the approach and rendezvous at the webstie\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rosetta.esa.int\/\" target=\"_d\">Rosetta | rendevous with a comet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A l<span style=\"color: #292f33;\">ivestream webcast will start on Wednesday at 08:00UTC (4:00 am EDT). \u00a0Here&#8217;s the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Rosetta_timeline_countdown_to_comet_arrival\" target=\"_d\">Rosetta timeline<\/a>\u00a0for events in this initial encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Find updates at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESA_Rosetta\" target=\"_d\">ESA Rosetta Mission (ESA_Rosetta) on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The features of the weirdly double-blob shaped object are\u00a0getting steadily sharper in the images :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2014\/08\/04\/cometwatch-3-august\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=cometwatch-3-august\" target=\"_d\">CometWatch \u2013 3 August &#8211;\u00a0Rosetta &#8211; ESA&#8217;s comet chaser<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/files\/2014\/08\/ESA_ROSETTA_NAVCAM_20140803_cropped_scaledx2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1733\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/files\/2014\/08\/ESA_ROSETTA_NAVCAM_20140803_cropped_scaledx2.jpg\" alt=\"Crop from the 3 August image of comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credits: ESA\/Rosetta\/NAVCAM\" width=\"434\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Crop from the 3 August image of comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Credits: ESA\/Rosetta\/NAVCAM<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an animation of how &#8220;sunrise&#8221; would\u00a0look from the spacecraft as it orbits around the comet:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQL_43SFHzw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s\u00a0Rosetta\u00a0spacecraft will rendezvous with \u00a0Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday. \u00a0Find lots of info, images, videos, etc of the approach and rendezvous at the webstie\u00a0Rosetta | rendevous with a comet. A livestream webcast will start on Wednesday at 08:00UTC (4:00 am EDT). \u00a0Here&#8217;s the\u00a0Rosetta timeline\u00a0for events in this initial encounter. Find updates at\u00a0ESA Rosetta &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rosetta nears comet rendezvous<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2cM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8489,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8489","url_meta":{"origin":8480,"position":0},"title":"Rosetta spacecraft arrives at Comet 67P\/C-G","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft after ten years has finally made its\u00a0rendezvous this morning with\u00a0Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko. 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