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Rendezvous with a Comet, Rosetta Mission Movie

Oct 31st, 2014 by Aldouspi

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AMBITION is a short film starring Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger, GAME OF THRONES) in support of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Rosetta Mission. Directed by Tomek Bagiński, the “6 minute trailer to a 20 year mission” tells the story of one of the most important space exploration endeavours of this decade.

Just as Gillen’s enigmatic Master encourages Franciosi’s Apprentice to seek out the key to life amidst a rugged alien landscape, ESA has been on a decade-long ambitious journey of its own, to unlock the mysteries of a comet and the origins of our Solar System with its Rosetta spacecraft, hundreds of millions of kilometers from Earth.

AMBITION complements the ongoing communication about Rosetta and adds a “human dimension” to the scientific and technological achievements of the mission, which include curiosity, drive and ambition.

The Rosetta Mission

Among the most fascinating projects in the exploration of the Universe is the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, to investigate the comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko. For the first time, a spacecraft will follow a comet as it approaches the Sun and land on its nucleus.

As preparation for the Rosetta mission, Hubble Space Telescope pictures taken on 12 March 2003 were closely analyzed. An overall 3D model was constructed and computer generated images created.
Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket and reached the comet on 6 August 2014, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. (Previous missions had conducted successful flybys of seven other comets.) It is part of the ESA Horizon 2000 cornerstone missions.

The spacecraft consists of two main elements: the Rosetta space probe orbiter, which features 12 instruments, and the Philae robotic lander, with an additional nine instruments. The Rosetta mission will orbit 67P/C G for 17 months and is designed to complete the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted. The mission is controlled from the European Space Operations Center (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany.

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