Search Publications

30 years of the Vega mission: Comparison of some properties of the 1P/Halley and 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comets

Ksanfomality, L. V.

On March 6 and 9, 1986, for the first time in the history of science, the Russian spacecraft Vega-1 and Vega-2 approached and closely passed by the nucleus of Halley’s comet (1P/Halley). A few days later, on March 14, 1986, the same was done by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Giotto spacecraft. These missions, together with the Japanese Suisei (…