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Michael Duross 'Rosetta'

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“Rosetta”, an article written by Michael DuRoss that talks about, as Michael DuRoss states, (2015) ”Rosetta, the first space probe to go into orbit around a comet”, to inform people about a significant probe journey and mission. The Rosetta space probe was launched on March 2, 2004 and arriving at the comet “67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko” on August 2014, making it a ten year journey. The main mission was to learn about the comet as it came closer and circled the sun. During a long journey of a ten year flight to get next to the comet, Rosetta flew a distance away from the sun of 492 million miles (792 million kilometers). The space probe also made four “gravity assists” maneuvers three times around the Earth and once around Mars in order to gain
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