This is a key part of a twenty five year long plan which will see the probe relay a wide variety of information and telemetry back to ESA. More than being a groundbreaking technological and scientific achievement, the Rosetta Probe represents a symbolic step in the exploration of our solar system. Indeed, it seems even William Shatner had a great personal interest in the landing; tweeting along whilst watching the live stream of this historic event.
Whilst significant data and experiments are planned in coming days, weeks and months; today is a day of celebration. Various shots of mission control celebrations were viewed across the globe as twitter erupted as millions posted their elation and congratulations - our own UFPlanets.com account amongst them!
“ IT'S ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS - ABOUT US - ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS LIVING A DREAM ”
- ROBERTO BATTISON, PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY
Although not a manned mission, Rosetta represents the overwhelming ability and desire of humanity to expand its combined knowledge. ESA staff have announced that "Science fiction has become fact" whilst NASA representative, Jim Green, refers to Rosetta as "marvellous" and "audacious". If the moon landing was one giant leap for mankind, then Rosetta is certainly the continuation of humanity's grand effort to explore space.
The commentator passed along some exciting news that within an hour we should expect to receive the first pictures from Rosetta and our Twitter account will be tweeting live coverage of the Rosetta mission throughout the evening!
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WRITTEN BY DENTARI
EDITED BY TORINTH - STEPHEN.HALL@UFPLANETS.COM
Also a very well written article Dentari