Solar System Missions: Rosetta
Landing on a CometBy Aira Astralis
Length1h 45m
About this audiobook
The story of ESA's Rosetta mission, the first spacecraft to orbit a comet: the ten-year chase with three Earth flybys and one at Mars, the two-year hibernation, the 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Philae's bouncing landing and sixty hours of surface science, the perihelion escort, the discoveries that rewrote the comet textbooks, and the deliberate descent that ended the mission on the comet in 2016.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Stone and the Message
4Chapter 2: Twenty Years to the Launch Pad
5Chapter 3: The Machines: Building for the Far Dark
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter 4: The Rubber Duck
7Chapter 5: The Kit: The Instruments of the Escort
8Chapter 6: Mapping and Naming: The Chart of the Relic
9Chapter 7: Philae's Sixty Hours
10Chapter 8: The Skin of a Comet
11Chapter 9: A Body of Dust and Emptiness
12Chapter 10: The Gases of the Waking Comet
13Chapter 11: The Chemistry of a Beginning
14Chapter 12: The Comet at Perihelion
15Chapter 13: The Comet in Human Eyes: Omens, Portents, and Questions
16Chapter 14: The Long Goodbye
17Chapter 15: The Philae Afterlife and the Archive's Second Life
18Chapter 16: What the Escort Taught
19Chapter 17: Conclusion: Reading the Stone
20References: Rosetta
21Glossary
22About the Author
23Series Info
24Copyright
Series
Fluid DynamicsAira Astralis1h 44m$2.99
EnergyAira Astralis1h 51m$2.99
Entropy of InformationAira Astralis1h 55m$2.99
EntropyAira Astralis1h 54m$2.99
Vacuum EnergyAira Astralis1h 52m$2.99
Waves and SoundAira Astralis1h 52m$2.99
TimeAira Astralis1h 49m$2.99
The Uncertainty PrincipleAira Astralis1h 55m$2.99
The Wave-Particle DualityAira Astralis1h 54m$2.99
ThermodynamicsAira Astralis1h 53m$2.99
The Standard ModelAira Astralis1h 53m$2.99
The Periodic TableAira Astralis1h 53m$2.99
The Photoelectric EffectAira Astralis1h 55m$2.99
The Schrödinger EquationAira Astralis1h 54m$2.99
The Pauli Exclusion PrincipleAira Astralis1h 53m$2.99
The Grand Unified TheoryAira Astralis1h 52m$2.99
The Many-Worlds InterpretationAira Astralis1h 51m$2.99
The Higgs BosonAira Astralis1h 53m$2.99
The Four ForcesAira Astralis1h 52m$2.99
The Electromagnetic SpectrumAira Astralis1h 52m$2.99
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
HomeschooledStefan Merrill Block7h 10m3.6 (18.5K)$28 · $0.00
Life on the BridgeKaelynn Partlow5h 40m4.6 (1.1K)$24 · $0.00
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION – Premium Edition (Including Democracy & Education) (Annotated)John Dewey19h 17m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
WitnessAriel Burger8h 1m4.6 (1.3K)$20 · $0.00
EducationEllen G. White9h 41m4.6 (1.5K)$2 · $0.00
Parents and Children (Annotated)Charlotte Mason9h 23m4.6 (988)$2 · $0.00
Children Under FireJohn Woodrow Cox10h 17m4.5 (1.6K)$29 · $0.00
The State Must ProvideAdam Harris7h 15m4.5 (775)$24 · $0.00
The Call of the Wild and FreeAinsley Arment9h 7m4.4 (21.2K)$29 · $0.00
The Freelance WayRobert Vlach19h 48m4.5 (528)$40 · $0.00
Race to the BottomLuke Rosiak9h 20m4.5 (600)$29 · $0.00
They Came for the SchoolsMike Hixenbaugh9h 5m4.5 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
Find Me UnafraidKennedy Odede, Jessica Posner11h 11m4.5 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Asking for ItKate Harding8h 55m4.4 (5.3K)$20 · $0.00
Defining Moments in Black HistoryDick Gregory7h 37m4.4 (6K)$26 · $0.00
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the AtlanteanMaurice Doreal3h 4m4.4 (8.8K)$6 · $0.00
Learning AmericaLuma Mufleh6h 37m4.4 (564)$24 · $0.00
Math-ishJo Boaler7h 21m4.4 (588)$24 · $0.00
Daddy-Long-LegsJean Webster12h 18m4.2 (91K)$1.99 · $0.00
You may also like
The Voyage of the BeagleCharles Darwin21h 21m4.2 (17.1K)$1.20 · $0.00
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America: 1799-1804Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland65h 4m4.2 (479)$1.99 · $0.00
The Malay Archipelago (Vol. 1&2)Alfred Russel Wallace25h 11m4.3 (2.9K)$1 · $0.00
Fancy Nancy: Stellar Stargazer!Jane O'Connor13m4.2 (1.2K)$4 · $0.00
Audubon's BirdsJohn James Audubon1h 29m4.4 (752)$15 · $0.00
The Narrative Of An Explorer In Tropical South AfricaFrancis Galton9h 18m3.9 (34)$2
Tales of Tahitian WatersZane Grey11h 25m4.2 (12)$20 · $0.00
Great Sand Dunes National ParkOrion C. Valemont2h 16m$2.30 · $0.00
The Barnet Book of Photography: A Collection of Practical ArticlesVarious8h 44m$2 · $0.00
The Mighty Deep, And What We Know Of ItAgnes Giberne6h 20m$2.30
Our search for a wildernessBlair Niles, William Beebe10h 26m$1 · $0.00
Yellowstone Adventure GuideKOUNTRY WAYNE10h 17m$10
The North-Americans Of YesterdayFrederick Samuel Dellenbaugh13h 48m3.2 (37)$2
KashmirFrancis Edward Younghusband6h 10m3.5 (28)$2.30
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1846-50, Volume 1 (Annotated)John Macgillivray11h 52m$2 · $0.00
Craters of the MoonUnited States. National Park Service. Division of Publications1h 38m4.1 (13)$1 · $0.00
In Northern Mists: The History of Arctic ExplorationFridtjof Nansen28h 48m4.4 (44)$1.99 · $0.00
Activities 36Silvia Strufaldi3m$2.50 · $0.00
Discoveries in AustraliaJohn Lort Stokes31h 25m4.1 (29)$1.99 · $0.00
From Edinburg to India & BurmaW. G. Burn Murdoch12h 19m$2.30