The Comet: The Journey of Rosetta

by Jean-Pierre Bibring

A gorgeously printed portrait of a comet

In 2004, following more than ten years of research, the European Space Agency decided to send the Rosetta probe to study the 67P comet Churyumov Gerasimenko, nicknamed "Tchoury." After a ten-year voyage and hundreds of millions of miles crossed through space, the probe entered the comet's orbit and stayed there for 18 months--a first in the history of space conquest. Its lander, Philae, a kind...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2365112129
• ISBN13: 9782365112123
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.1" x 10.7"