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Rosetta's Mission

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Rosetta was a wonderful and useful spacecraft. Results from Rosetta’s mission were very interesting and helpful to the astronomers. The scientific instruments involved in Rosetta’s mission were very supportive in collecting data. There were lots of people longing for Rosetta’s mission. Rosetta’s timeline starts off with Rosetta being launched. On March 2nd, 2004, the spacecraft Rosetta was launched from Kourou, French Guiana along with spacecraft Philae, its lander module. On March 4th, 2005, Rosetta had a planned close swing-by of Earth. In total, Rosetta had a total of three swing-bys of Earth. On July 10th, 2010, Rosetta managed to fly by and photographed asteroid 21 Lutetia. Rosetta started on orbital correction maneuvers to bring itself

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