Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

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Physical Science 111
Homework 3
Alex Dulsky It was November 12 when spacecraft Rosetta caught up with the comet called Churyumov-Gerasimenko better know as 67P (Lauren, 2014). The journey took 6.4 billion miles to complete (Lauren, 2014). Also Rosetta sent a lander called Philae to explore the comet and take picture among other things (Lauren, 2014). Interestingly enough when the media reported the comet landing I thing is trumped Kim kardashian attempt at breaking the internet with her nude photos which the media was cover at about the same time as the comet landing. With all that being said you might be asking why should I care? You should care about this comet because comets came from and can tell us about our solar system, also there has not been any unique and important mission as this one, further more it might be the last space mission we get to experience for a while. Now I am going to get in to what comets are and how they got here and talk a little bit …show more content…

Studying this comets might finally unlock some of the questions we have been asking for centuries like why are we here , are we just some random accident, what is our purpose. Most members of the scientific community and some outside of it believe in evolution the ideal that we evolved from single celled organisms in the ocean; some scientists believe that this water came with the necessary nutrients and minerals for evolutionary life to begin (Lauren, 2014). Sure there have been other mission in space many in fact landing on the moon, sending robot to versus to name a few, but I don't believe that they are going to have as much of an impact as this comet mission will. These are just a few things that make this mission so unique and important because is going to help use learn more about our selves, our world and the worlds around

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