ROSETTA: ESA's Mission to the Origin of the Solar System

by Rita Schulz (Editor), Claudia Alexander (Editor), Hermann Boehnhardt (Editor)

Comets consist of the most primitive material in the solar system and to understand the earliest epoch of solar system formation, we must investigate the nature of this material. Much of what we know of comets presently comes from remote sensing using Earth-based telescopes. The Rosetta mission is poised to make a dramatic advance in our understanding of comets.

831 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 2008