OPENSPACE 22: Rosetta: Making Space History | Page 6
After more than 12 years in space and two years at comet 67P, ESA said goodbye to Rosetta, but the acomplishments of the mission will be remembered for years to come. Rosetta will be remembered for years to provides an unparalleled insight into what the come. The mission made space history by building blocks of the planets may have looked like successfully landing a robot on a comet 4.6 billion years ago. Overall, the data delivered in deep space for the first time. After a journey of by Rosetta so far suggest that comets are ancient more than six billion kilometers, Rosetta deployed leftovers of early solar system formation rather than the Philae lander to the surface of the comet on fragments of collisions between larger bodies.