The Rosetta Mission is the third cornerstone mission the ESA programme Horizon 2000. The aim of the mission is to map the comet 67-P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by remote sensing, to examine its environment insitu and its evolution in the inner solar system. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the mission up to now and what is in store in 2016.
Matt Taylor was born in London, living most of his London life in Manor Park. He gained his undergraduate Physics degree at the University of Liverpool and a PhD from Imperial College London. Following post-doctoral positions in UK and USA, he began his time at ESA in 2005, working as the Project Scientist for Cluster and the ESA-China Double star mission. Most recently, in 2013, he was appointed the Project Scientist on the Rosetta mission.
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