Sentence examples for surface of the comet from inspiring English sources

With time, this erodes the surface of the comet.

In November, Rosetta dropped its small Philae lander on to the surface of the comet.

Essentially the instrument detected and analysed molecules of gas that naturally drift off the surface of the comet.

In November last year, the Rosetta mission made history by landing a small probe on the surface of the comet.

The riskiest part, landing the Philae spacecraft on the surface of the comet, has never been done before".

The Rosetta spacecraft picked up the lander's signal on Thursday morning and received the first images and more instrument data from the surface of the comet.

The landing system was designed for the hard surface of the smaller comet originally planned as the destination.

With just one month to go before its dramatic solar rendezvous, skirting to within a hairbreadth of the surface of the sun, Comet ISON continues to befuddle observers with its performance en route to the sun.

Its goal is to analyse, directly at the surface of a comet, the molecular and elemental compositions of the cometary nucleus samples collected by the probe.

One of the highlights of the mission will be the attempt to put a small robotic lander, Philae, on the surface of the 4.5km-wide comet.

Such a spectrometer will also be used by the Philae lander of the Rosetta spacecraft to probe the surface of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.