Rosetta Mission Details 🚀

The European Space Agency's Rosetta was a groundbreaking mission that revolutionized our understanding of comets. Launched on March 2, 2004, it was a historic mission to study comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

Rosetta's primary objective was to help scientists learn more about the origins of comets and to study the solar system's history. On its journey, Rosetta flew by two asteroids and, after a ten-year journey, it became the first spacecraft to orbit a comet’s nucleus.

Fun Fact: Rosetta was named after the Rosetta Stone, which was instrumental in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. Similarly, the Rosetta mission aimed to unlock the mysteries of cometary and planetary evolution.