MISSION NEWS AS OF THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2015
+ LISA PATHFINDER ARRIVES AT LAUNCH SITE LISA Pathfinder, ESA's demonstrator for space-based observations of gravitational waves, has arrived at Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, ahead of a launch currently foreseen for 2 December. Read more: http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=56583 + MYSTERIOUS RIPPLES FOUND RACING THROUGH PLANET-FORMING DISC [HEIC1521] Using images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered never-before-seen structures within a dusty disc surrounding a nearby star. The fast-moving wave-like features in the disc of the star AU Microscopii are unlike anything ever observed, or even predicted, before now. Read more: http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=56574 ================================================== ROSETTA BLOG UPDATES + COMETWATCH 1 OCTOBER Today's CometWatch entry is an image from Rosetta's NAVCAM taken on 1 October 2015, at a distance of 1323 k