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Le premier ciel de Gaia
Arenou, Frederic; Turon, Catherine
On 14 September 2016, the first data release of the ESA's Gaia mission has been published. Based on raw data collected between 25 July 2014 and 16 Septembre 2015, i.e. only over the first 14 months of mission, this first "Gaia sky" includes the accurate positions and Gaia magnitudes of more than a billion objects: it is already the largest all-sky…
De la boule de neige sale au canard en caoutchouc noir, 67P/ Churyumov Gerasimenko, From the dirty snowball to the rubber black duck, 67P/ Churyumov Gerasimenko
Borg, Janet
Rosetta has ended its mission on 30 September 2016 with a controlled impact in the Ma'at region on the small lobe of comet 67P/ Churyumov Gerasimenko. Since its arrival in the vicinity of the comet in august 2014, Rosetta has spent more than two years living with the comet, investigating its nucleus and its environment. It has witnessed how a come…