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[Gabe Gabrielle]

Good morning all,
 I wanted to get this off quickly as I hope it will give you enough notice to share with the kids….especially those in Europe as the timing will be great... for those in the US, NASA will show replays so please try to find a few minutes to share this amazing mission with the kids….wishing you a wonderful day….gabe



September 28, 2016 
MEDIA ADVISORY M16-113
NASA Television to Provide Coverage of European Mission Comet Touchdown
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Artist's concept of Rosetta shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Sept. 30, 2016.
Credits: ESA/ATG medialab
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NASA Television and the agency’s website will air the conclusion of ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Rosetta mission from 6:15 to 8 a.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 30, with NASA commentary, interviews and analysis of the successful mission. The Rosetta mission will end with the controlled decent of the spacecraft onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at around 7:20 a.m.

From 8:15 to 10:15 a.m., NASA scientists and engineers involved in ESA’s Rosetta mission will be available for live broadcast interviews from the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany. To schedule an interview, contact Mark Petrovich at 818-393-4359 or mark.petrovich at jpl.nasa.gov <mailto:mark.petrovich at jpl.nasa.gov>.
Rosetta was launched in 2004 carrying 11 science instruments, with several contributions from NASA including: the Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO); the Alice spectrograph; the Ion and Electron Sensor (IES); and the Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer (DFMS) electronics package for the Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion Neutral Analysis (ROSINA). NASA's Deep Space Network supports ESA's Ground Station Network for spacecraft tracking and navigation. 
The spacecraft arrived at its destination comet on Aug. 6, 2014, becoming the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet and escort it as it orbits the sun. About two months later, the small Philae lander deployed from Rosetta touched down on the comet and bounced several times before alighting on the surface. Philae obtained the first images ever taken from the surface of a comet, and sent back valuable scientific data for several days. ESA is ending the mission because the spacecraft’s ever-increasing distance from the sun has resulted in significantly reduced solar power to operate the spacecraft and its instruments.
Comets are time capsules containing primitive material left over from the epoch when the sun and its planets formed. Rosetta is the first spacecraft to witness up close how a comet changes as it is subjected to the increasing intensity of the sun's radiation. Observations will help scientists learn more about the origin and evolution of our solar system and the role comets may have played in the formation of planets.
In addition to NASA’s contribution, Rosetta's Philae lander was provided by a consortium led by the German Aerospace Center, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, French National Space Agency, and Italian Space Agency. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, manages the U.S. contributions to the Rosetta mission for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL also built the MIRO and hosts its principal investigator, Mark Hofstadter. The Southwest Research Institute developed Rosetta's IES and Alice instruments and hosts their principal investigators, James Burch for IES and Alan Stern for the Alice instrument.
NASA TV streaming video, downlink and updated scheduling information is at: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv <http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv> The landing coverage will also be streamed live at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 <http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2> For more information on the U.S. instruments aboard Rosetta, visit: http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov <http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov/> 


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