Informed citizens: What happens on Comet?

 

The Rosetta mission explained to children

Missione Rosetta

The probe was baptized Rosetta to remember Rosetta Stone, artifact of antiquity which reported the same text in three different languages, including the hieroglyph, which enabled Champollion to translate the ancient Egyptian language, hitherto remained incomprehensible. Similarly, the Rosetta probe acts as a link between meteorites, that scientists can study the Earth, and the solar system, that scientists can not personally visit, but that comets crossing continuously (Wikipedia).

The 12 NovemberPhilae (the lander, that is, a spacecraft designed to sit on a celestial body -in our case the comet) was launched towards the nucleus of the cometa. Lands at 17:03 Italian, after about 7 hour flight between the probe and the comet.