Hubble Observations Help ESA Pick New Rosetta Target

Credit: NASA, ESA AND PHILIPPE LAMY
HUBBLE HELP European Space Agency scientists have used a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm that the Rosetta probe will indeed be able to land on a backup comet picked when launch delays forced the mission to retarget. A team of astronomers from France, Hungary and the U...

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