Let the space fans in

• Autores: Daniel Fischer
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2981, 2014, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Here, Fischer discusses why European Space Agency should change tack and not sit on pictures from a pioneering mission to a comet. Rosetta has been traveling to its target--the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko--for 10 years. In July 2014, with the probe having covered more than 6 billion kilometers, Rosetta's main camera system saw the target looming larger by the day. Yet images were released just once a week. There was no way for the public to "ride along" with the mission to one of the oldest objects in the solar system, sharing the excitement as a new frontier unfolded far from Earth.