New Horions probe, gets a boost from Jupiter flyby

Rosetta swingby of Mars, confirmed!

The mission controllers at ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre in Germany, have confirmed today at 03:57 CET, that Rosetta´s swingby of Mars was made successfully, just only 250 km above of the planet surface.

Now, the next waypoint for the probe is the planet Earth, when the gravitational energy of our planet will "catapult" it to gain acceleration for its trek.

In year 2014, this probe will reach its target: the comet "Churyumov-Gerasimenko".