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.
Love the flyby of the Earth.. I guess this is how it would look travelling around 10% of light speed
ReisendeEuropa 2 years ago