January 20, 2014 • 21h23
space probe Rosetta awakes from hibernation and is active
European probe Rosetta awakened from its 31 months of hibernation on Monday as planned and is ready preparing for the encounter with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, announced the European Space Agency (ESA).
Rosetta was ordered awakening on Monday at 10am GMT (8pm GMT).
signal emitted by Rosetta arrived at 18h18 GMT (16h18 GMT) to the control center of the ESA, the German city of Darmstadt, after a long process of reactivation and go 800 million miles that separate Earth, in 45 minutes at the speed of light.
ESA Rosetta expects to reveal the mysteries of the solar system, thanks to the analysis of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
probe and its small module Philae, which should land on the comet in November 2014, equipped with 21 instruments.
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