Rosetta - Stein's Flyby

• Rosetta blog: It's a wrap
  

  We're wrapping up here in the newsroom.

  We'll be publishing updates of science results from the fly-by as they're available on the ESA Rosetta site.

  The Rosetta blog will be back online again in November 2009, for the third Earth swing-by. In the meantime, ESA will host blogs for other exciting events. Check the ESA portal for regular news and updates.

  Thanks a lot for all your great enthusiasm over the last few days!

  --Amruta

  
  
  
• Steins fly-by - images and full details
  

  Now available in the ESA web site:

  http://www.esa.int
  http://www.esa.int/rosetta
  http://www.esa.int/science

  
  
  
• Steins fly-by - the movie
  

   

  An animation of the closest approach of Rosetta to asteroid Steins, taken with the OSIRIS imaging system’s Wide Angle Camera. The image sequence starts 3 minutes before closest approach, from a distance of about 2000 km and ends 4 minutes after closest approach. At the start of the animation, the sun illuminated the asteroid from behind the spacecraft and no shadows are visible on the its surface. Later, the sunlight is incident from the left, and craters and more surface features become visible.

  ESA ©2008 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

   

  
  
  
• Web update
  A full web update with Rosetta's Steins fly-by results is scheduled for 13:00 CEST on the ESA site. -- Daniel
  
  
• Press conference about to start
  Watch it live here. --Amruta