• Question: how interested are you about the Rosetta landing on a comet

    Asked by chantelle to Ceri, Marikka, Matt, Rob, Sally on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Robert Hampson

      Robert Hampson answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Very, this mission could reveal the earliest chemical composition of our solar sytem. It could also reveal more information about what is outside the orbit of pluto!

    • Photo: Matt Bilton

      Matt Bilton answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I think it’s amazing. I’m not sure about the specific experiments they plan to do although I am sure there are many! In any case human beings have landed something on a COMET! moving at over 100,000 kilometres an hour BILLIONS of kilometres away. Incredible.

    • Photo: Ceri Dare

      Ceri Dare answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I think it is super amazing – they had to do ten years of maths to get everything in just the right place to land on the comet!

    • Photo: Sally Cutler

      Sally Cutler answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I think this is awesome but it is far removed from my field of expertise. I am still struggline to explain microbes on this planet before migrating to outer space! Leave this to the cleaver chaps!

    • Photo: Marikka Beecroft

      Marikka Beecroft answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I find it AWESOME!!! I mean it was done by the European space agency and they managed to land it safely on something hurtling through space that could go anywhere! Just imagine what experiments they could do and what they could find out! This is a fantastic event that could have happened!

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