I always appreciate when writers are kind enough to describe the distance of space journeys in years, as I find nearly impossible to make sense of numbers such as '6.4 billion kilometers' 😅
I had heard about the Rosetta Mission before in the news, but I wasn't aware of its purpose, or of the planned collision. It is also new info for me to learn that the Rosetta Mission research is still ongoing, despite the crash!
Well, thank you for this informative, straight-forward write-up @astrophoto.kevin
Best :)
Thank you very much for your comment @abigail-dantes
Above a certain size, the distances and sizes are no longer so easily imaginable. Whereby I find it a bit of pity with a value in light years that the sheer distance is slightly lost. You first have to rethink this somehow into a normal traveling speed in order to understand the almost unattainable distance.
I think and hope that the Rosetta Mission will produce many more insights and publications. It will certainly take some time to process and analyze the complete data. Such data can also be included again and again in new calculations or new models can be calculated from it. In the end, a model raises new questions whose answers may be found in the data.
I am very pleased that this post was informative for you.
Greetz :-)