Scientific Achievements Worth Being Cheerful About in 2016 As the Year Draws to a Close
As It’s Okay To Be Smart host Joe Hanson points out, 2016 has been a rough year, but to combat that he shares 23 scientific…
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A Charming Animation Summarizes the European Space Agency Rosetta Mission to Land a Spacecraft on a Comet
A charming animation summarizes the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission which successfully landed a spacecraft on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on November 12, 2014. The animation is the latest…
A Hauntingly Beautiful Cover of ‘Across the Universe’ by The Beatles Using Audio From Comet 67P
Musician Andrew Huang (previously) used audio from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission (previously) to create a hauntingly beautiful cover of the song “Across the…
Google Takes a Look Back on the Major Events of 2014 With ‘A Year in Search’
Google takes a look back on the major events of 2014 with “A Year in Search“–which covers search trends like the European Space Agency’s historic…
The ESA Rosetta Mission Successfully Lands the Philae Spacecraft on the Surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
The European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission (previously) has successfully landed the Philae spacecraft on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on November 12, 2014. The landing was…
Live Stream of ESA Rosetta Mission Attempting to Land the Philae Spacecraft on Comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
The European Space Agency (ESA) will be live streaming coverage of the Rosetta mission (previously) as it attempts to land the Philae spacecraft on the surface…
Ambition, A Short Sci-Fi Film Made to Promote the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission
“Ambition” is a short science-fiction film directed by Polish artist Tomasz Baginski to promote the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission. The short, which stars Game…
xkcd Chronicles the Landing of the Philae Spacecraft on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko With a 142-Panel Comic
Webcomic xkcd by Randall Munroe chronicled the successful landing of the Philae spacecraft on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with a 142-panel epic. Readers can scroll through all 142 panels…
Space Station Astronaut Shares the Challenge They Face to Successfully Land Philae on a Comet
While on board the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst used an earplug to demonstrate the challenges the Rosetta mission (previously) faces in attempting…
Short Film on The Rosetta Project: Preserving Languages for Millennia
Rosetta is a short film about the Long Now Foundation‘s Rosetta Project, a language archive inspired by the Rosetta Stone and Long Now’s mission to…