Fri, 27 Apr 2012
VIDEO Rosetta Fly-by of Asteroid Lutetia - Video
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What would it look like to approach an asteroid in a spaceship? In 2010, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft zipped past the asteroid Lutetia. Recently, many images from a camera always facing the asteroid were compiled into the above video. Orbiting in the main asteroid belt, Lutetia is 100-kilometers across and is a remnant of the early Solar System. Now well past Lutetia, the Rosetta spacecraft is continuing onto comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko where a landing is planned for 2014