Šteins Flyby Animated

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

steins_-_the_movie_v3 [AVI video]
Credits: ESA ©2008 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPM/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA – “An animation of the closest approach of Rosetta to asteroid Steins“. AVI format, 3014 kb.
Along with first images, anaglyphs and initial data results from Rosetta’s successful flyby of Asteroid (2867) Šteins, mission team members put together an animation of the flyby.
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Šteins Up Close

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Hours after its successful flyby of “the jewel of the solar system”, the robotic traveler Rosetta continues to return data from the encounter. From a point of light discovered in 1969 into a world of new vistas, here is Asteroid (2867) Šteins:

Credits: ESA ©2008 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPM/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA – Cutout of “Asteroid Steins [...]


Asteroid (2867) Šteins Flyby Coming

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Credit: ESA TV – “Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins“
Rosetta, the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft on its way to orbit and deploy a lander on a comet, is now approaching Asteroid (2867) Šteins. The flyby will bring the spacecraft within 800 km of Šteins on Friday evening, September 5, 2008. The ESA will provide [...]