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The Rosetta Mission was approved in 1993 as part of the European Space Agency's first long-term mission. Named after the Rosetta Stone, Rosetta's mission is to discover mysteries of the Solar System. Its objective is to allow us to understand the origin and evolution of the Solar System. 
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Rosetta is achieving lots of 'firsts' in space exploration such as:
  • it will be the first mission to orbit and land on a comet

  • it will be the first to examine at close proximity how a comet changes as it approaches the Sun's radiation

  • it will be the first spacecraft to investigate a comet's nucleus and environment over a long period of time

The study of comets is important to understand these primitive, and sometimes the oldest bodies, in the Solar System. Comets are believed to carry organic molecules which may have been involved in the origin of life on Earth.

Tasked with potentially unlocking the mysteries of Earth's origins, Rosetta is an exciting mission returning fascinating data for examination.


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