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Focus on SD2, COSAC and Ptolemy


Date: 18 November 2014
Satellite: Rosetta
Depicts: Philae lander
Copyright: ESA/ATG medialab

Illustration, highlighting three of the instruments on Rosetta's lander Philae: the Sampling, Drilling and Distribution (SD2) subsystem, the Cometary Sampling and Composition experiment (COSAC) and the evolved gas analyser Ptolemy.

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