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Universal Language
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Paris, France (ESA): The Rosetta space probe uses one of the "universal" languages: that of chemistry, and has been adopted by Inttranews as a symbol of the link between science and speech. Its mission is to rendezvous with, and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014.
The spacecraft is now in cruise mode. In the reporting period, a number of outstanding troubleshooting activities was carried out, in addition to the routine flight operations and monitoring tasks.
The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone, an incomplete stela of black basalt discovered in 1799 incised with the same text in three scripts: Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Egyptian Demotic and Greek. The Stone provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphs and the history of ancient Egypt. The Rosetta space mission has a similar purpose: deciphering other stones (asteroids) and the history of the solar system.
For more information, please visit:
sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=36433
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