{"id":25242,"date":"2016-04-30T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/5-takeaways-from-esas-rosetta-comet-mission"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:07:49","slug":"5-takeaways-from-esas-rosetta-comet-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/5-takeaways-from-esas-rosetta-comet-mission","title":{"rendered":"5 Takeaways From ESA\u2019s Rosetta Comet Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-takeaways-from-esas-rosetta-comet-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comets are more complicated than ever imagined and even after ESA\u2019s spectacularly successful mission to 67P, researchers are still debating whether they delivered most of the water to Earth and whether they helped jumpstart life here on terra firma.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Rosetta mission to the comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has arguably given planetary scientists the best new cometary data in a generation. Although the mission\u2019s Philae lander has long ceased communication from the comet\u2019s surface, the Rosetta spacecraft will continue operations until September when it makes a final touchdown on 67P\u2019s surface. As I noted here previously, at that point, Rosetta will be so far from the Sun it will be on the verge of exhausting all its power.<\/p>\n<p>But next month, researchers will meet at The Royal Society in London to discuss the data and the direction cometary science should take in this post-Rosetta era.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few takeaways from the mission.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/04\/30\/5-takeaways-from-esas-rosetta-comet-mission\/#401fd6da36de\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/04\/30\/5-takea...1fd6da36de<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comets are more complicated than ever imagined and even after ESA\u2019s spectacularly successful mission to 67P, researchers are still debating whether they delivered most of the water to Earth and whether they helped jumpstart life here on terra firma. The European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Rosetta mission to the comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has arguably given planetary scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50648,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions\/50648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}