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Rosetta and VIRTIS in brief |
Rosetta is an ESA mission, the first designed to both orbit and land on a comet. It will reach comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko in 2014.
VIRTIS is an imaging spectrometer onboard of Rosetta built by IFSI/INAF, ASI, Galileo Avionica, DLR and Observatorie de Paris.
Latest News: 13 November 2009
Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby The VIRTIS hyperspectral imager aboard Rosetta took some very interesting pictures during the 13th November 2009 fly-by of the Earth when the spacecraft was at about 230000 km from the surface. The mages were taken almost at the same as those acquired by the Rosetta’s Navigation Camera. The Rosetta probe, launched in March 2004, is en route to the comet P67/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This was the last fly-by with a planet before reaching its final target on April 2014. Read more about the images
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To know more About Rosetta | To know more About VIRTIS | About our Science Activities | In this section you will learn about Rosetta mission, its instruments, its scientific targets...Link | Some information about spectrometers, how they work, VIRTIS scientific targets...Link
| Learn about last VIRTIS Science Meetings, scientific publications from our team and much more...Link |
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