What's up Science? — 1
Hello to all, this post is the first in a series of “reviews” of some things I have found, read, or heard on the web and through my scientific monitoring. If I found it interesting, you might as well, so I'll do like every good scientist does: share and enjoy! Rosetta The big news of this week is of course the successful awakening of ESA's comet chaser : Rosetta (fr) / (en) ! I was following intensively the event on Twitter (#WakeUpRosetta), and it was already tense. But if you want to watch the full media briefings and videos on that day to feel even more the tension, ESA has set a playlist on Youtube for you. The LATMOS is quite involved in Rosetta with 7 instruments: On the orbiter: ALICE : UV spectro-imager CONSERT (Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission) : Hyperfrequency souding of the comet's nucleus MIDAS : Microscope to study the dusts OSIRIS : Visible camera ROSINA : Neutral and ionized gases spectrometer...