{"id":36156,"date":"2011-06-12T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/rosetta-spies-comet-churyumov-gerasimenko\/"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:50:26","slug":"rosetta-spies-comet-churyumov-gerasimenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/rosetta-spies-comet-churyumov-gerasimenko.php","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta Spies Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d7477_esa060911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d7477_esa060911.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"307\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>An enlarged image of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the Rosetta spacecraft. More images linked below. Credits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/UCLA\/MPS\/DLR\/IDA)<\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>The European Space Agency has a spacecraft enroute to meet a comet. The name of the comet is Churyumov-Gerasimenko (say that three times fast). Rosetta was launched in 2004 and won&rsquo;t actually get to the comet in 2014.&nbsp; ESA is getting ready to put the spacecraft in a hibernation for the last three years of the journey.<\/p><p>The picture above was a test of the on board system called <a title=\"About OSIRIS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaMI\/Rosetta\/SEMYCF374OD_0.html\" target=\"_blank\">OSIRIS<\/a>, (short for Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System) and at a distance of over 101 million miles (163 million km) taking a picture of an object that is only 2.5 miles (4 km) in diameter I&rsquo;d say it works pretty well.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mps.mpg.de\/en\/aktuelles\/pressenotizen\/pressenotiz_20110608.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the press release and more images<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enlarged image of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the Rosetta spacecraft. More images linked below. Credits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/UCLA\/MPS\/DLR\/IDA)&nbsp;The European Space Agency has a spacecraft enroute to meet a comet. The name of the comet is Churyumov-Gerasimenko (say that three times fast). Rosetta &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/rosetta-spies-comet-churyumov-gerasimenko.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}