December 23, 2024

On This Day in Space! Sept. 30, 2016: Rosetta spacecraft crashes into a comet

Hanneke Weitering is an editor at Space.com with 10 years of experience in science journalism. She has actually formerly written for Scholastic Classroom Magazines, MedPage Today and The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After studying physics at the University of Tennessee in her home town of Knoxville, she earned her academic degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting (SHERP) from New York University. Hanneke signed up with the Space.com team in 2016 as a staff author and producer, covering subjects consisting of spaceflight and astronomy. She currently resides in Seattle, home of the Space Needle, with her cat and two snakes. In her extra time Hanneke likes to check out the Rocky Mountains, basking in nature and searching for dark skies to gaze at the universes..

Photos: Europes Rosetta Comet Mission in PicturesOne of the last images caught by the Rosetta spacecraft before it crashed into comet 67P. (Image credit: ESA) Rosetta spent the next 2 years tagging along with the comet as it traveled through the solar system. Still not adequate area?

Images: Europes Rosetta Comet Mission in PicturesOne of the last images captured by the Rosetta spacecraft prior to it crashed into comet 67P. Still not sufficient space? She currently lives in Seattle, home of the Space Needle, with her cat and two snakes.