sagansense:Did you know this about the #CometLanding Rosetta Mission?This daring international missi
sagansense:Did you know this about the #CometLanding Rosetta Mission?This daring international mission is spearheaded by ESA - European Space Agency, with key support and instruments from NASA.NASA contributed three of the orbiter’s instruments (ALICE, MIRO, and IES) and part of the electronics package for the Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer - one of two detectors on the Swiss ROSINA instrument.NASA is also providing science investigators for selected non-U.S. instruments. In all, NASA is involved to a greater or lesser degree in Alice, MIRO, IES, OSIRIS, Radio Science, ROSINA, and VIRTIS experiments. NASA’s Deep Space Network provides support for ESA’s Ground Station Network for spacecraft tracking and navigation.Learn more here, courtesy of NASA. -- source link
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