MOSCOW, November 12 – RIA Novosti. primitive matter of the solar system and the primary forms of life can be found at the first landing of a space probe to the comet, which will be held on Wednesday, RIA Novosti said the academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky Igor Marinin.
The descent module “Phil” (Philae) spacecraft “Rosetta” (Rosetta) on November 12 for a historic landing on the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Mission “Phil” will be the first attempt to land a spacecraft mankind on the surface of the comet nucleus.
“It is believed that comets preserved primitive matter, which was created from our solar system. In addition, comets preserved water, which also is the primary source of water on earth, the water can be a carrier of primordial life forms. The task of the probe to reach these primitive matter from which the solar system was created, “- said Marina’s.
© ESA-J. Huart, 2013
According to him, European Space Agency scientists have to make a technically very complex operation, as the comet hurtling at a speed of 16 kilometers per second. Maneuvering the spacecraft took more than ten years.
“have to make a difficult maneuver to approach the nucleus of a comet with almost zero velocity, fly parallel to it, shoot it from all sides, and then pull it to the probe, which could cling, explore the ground and then move to another place. The Japanese took the substance of the comet’s tail, and the Europeans decided to investigate himself and possibly ground water “, – the expert added.
The probe” Rosetta “went into space almost ten years ago, in March 2004. Moving along a complex path around the Sun, the unit approached the orbit of Jupiter, flew near Mars and three times – close to the Earth. In July 2010, “Rosetta” took about 3.2 thousand kilometers of the 120-kilometer asteroid Lutetia – the largest asteroid that people could see at such close range. In August 2014, met with the comet probe Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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