Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Rosetta

Recently, the Rosetta spacecraft made history as it became the first probe to rendezvous with a comet on its journey around the sun. Rosetta spacecraft was launched by ____? 
[A]NASA 
[B]Russian Space Agency 
[C]European Space Agency 
[D]ISRO

Ans-Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency to perform a detailed study of comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko. On 6 August 2014 it entered into orbit, becoming the first manmade spacecraft to orbit a comet.



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