Universal language: Rosetta's Gravitational Microlensing Programme</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Universal language: Rosetta's Gravitational Microlensing Programme"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Universal,language,Rosettas,Gravitational,Microlensing,Programme"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">16-10-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Universal language: Rosetta's Gravitational Microlensing Programme</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_gQJ8KYE1qcvTYO13sgD8_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Paris, France (ESA): In the four weeks since the Rosetta spacecraft flew by asteroid Steins the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera has periodically observed the Galactic Bulge in a programme to detect gravitational microlensing events. When combined with simultaneous observations taken with ground-based telescopes this OSIRIS observing programme will provide a unique measure of the mass distribution of disk brown dwarfs. <br>The Rosetta space probe uses one of the "universal" languages: that of chemistry, and has been adopted by the Inttranet 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 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. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=43545 " target="blank">sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=43545 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show