Global National VR Set: Rosetta and the Comet

Our team built a series of graphics to cover the Rosetta story. All set designs by Annu Gulati and Beth Mally.

Rosetta and the Comet

A team of scientists have landed a spacecraft on the icy surface of a speeding comet, hurtling through space more than 500 million kilometres from Earth.

Animation by Leo Kavanagh

Philae Landing

A day after the Rosetta space probe’s Philae lander touched down on a comet, the scientists behind the mission revealed it didn’t touchdown where it was intended to.

Philae

Imagine astounding the world by landing a spacecraft on a speeding comet and waiting to gather amazing data that could explain the very origins of life on earth, only to wonder if the batteries will go dead.