The special exhibition The Rosetta Mission – a Voyage to the Origins of the Solar System, organised by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center DLR) in cooperation with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Max Planck Society, gives an insight into the fascination of comets and how the Rosetta mission set out to reveal their secrets. The exhibition runs from August 9th 2016 to January 24th 2017.
When the space probe Rosetta finally reached its destination, the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko on August 6th 2014, it had travelled for 10 years, covering a distance of 404 million kilometres. Never before had a space probe orbited a comet. A new high point was reached when the lander Philae touched down on the comet on November 12th 2014. For the first time, data were collected from the surface of a comet. The flight was a voyage into the past of our solar system, no less, as comets are very old celestial bodies and have been around for 4.5 billion years.
Press pictures and more information you can get here:
http://download.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/presse/Rosettabilder