Sentence examples for the 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.

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.

Philae, a dishwasher-sized probe, accomplished an astonishing feat in November 2014, when it landed on the surface of the duck-shaped comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after being launched from its orbiting mothership Rosetta.

The MUPUS experiment on the Rosetta Lander will measure thermal and mechanical properties as well as the bulk density of the cometary material at and just below the surface of the nucleus of comet 46P/Wirtanen.

Properties as temperatures, sublimation, and outgassing rates, are determined for different surface parameters to model the surface of the nucleus of comet 19P/Borrelly.

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.