You probably heard about people chasing tornados and many other things. But nothing can get further than a probe in space that chases asteroids and comets. That’s what the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will be doing this weekend.
This Saturday, while you’re cozy in your home, an asteroid will pass by Rosetta at a speed of 54,000 kilometers per hour. Rosetta will snap pictures of the asteroid and gather data about it.
The data collected could unlock the secrets of the birth of our whole solar system. Why is that? Because asteroids come from the formation of our world and planets more than 4 billion years ago.
