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Anticyclone over the South Pacific
Swirling clouds over the South Pacific
 
16 November 2009   Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it.
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Rosetta closes in on home for the last Earth swingby
Rosetta sees a living planet
 
13 November 2009   Images and data taken just before closest approach were downloaded this morning, and they show the lights of North America in the night and a glowing Southern Hemisphere.
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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby
 
13 November 2009   This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
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13 November 2009   NOW REPLAYING: Rosetta swingby event
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13 November 2009   Rosetta darting across the night
12 November 2009   First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home
12 November 2009   ESA spacecraft may help unravel cosmic mystery
6 November 2009   Rosetta approach on schedule
4 November 2009   Follow Rosetta’s final Earth boost


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