The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission chased down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for ten years. Between 2014 to 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft followed the comet through space, collecting scientific data, sending a probe to its surface, and capturing some 400,000 photographs.
The comet is a regular visitor to the inner Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 6.5 years between the orbits of Jupiter and Earth.
One particularly memorable sets of images captured in during the final stages of the mission were those of Rosetta’s lander Philae, following the painstaking effort over the previous years to determine its location. With Rosetta flying so close, challenging conditions associated with the dust and gas escaping from the comet, along with the topography of the local terrain, caused problems with getting the best line-of-sight view of Philae’s expected location, but the winning shot was finally captured just weeks before the mission end.
After the mission ended in 2016, award-winning Artist and Motion Designer Christian Stangl and Composer Wolfgang Stangl, worked together to combine and score a short video, combining the photos, “digitally enhanced real-footage from the probe” released by the ESA once the mission was came to a close.
Watch the beauty of an active alien body, far out in the depths of our solar system….
Christian Stangl has a unique vision that combines unconventional creativity with visual diversity and efficient production. His obsession for the strange and sinister side of life shows surprising results. You can view more of his films here on his official web site
Born in 1978 in Lower Austria, he has lived in Vienna since 2002. He has been researching and developing opening titles, music videos and motion design on many projects, and also creates photographic projects, exhibitions and visual arts.
The award-winning artist has worked with directors, film-producers, editors, programmers, agencies, culture departments and composers.
Wolfgang Stangl began his instrumental studies at the Eisenerz Music School. After completing the preparatory school at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts (KUG) with Walter Klasinc, he studied at KUG Graz and MUK Vienna with Christian Euler and Thomas Kakuska.
As part of his education, he attended masterclasses with Nobuko Imai, Terence Helmer, and Georg Hamann, as well as chamber music courses with the Amadeus Quartet, the Alban Berg Quartet, the Prague String Quartet, the Bartók Quartet, and the Janáček Quartet. He also served as principal violist in the Orchestra Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Lorin Maazel.
A prizewinner of the national competition Prima la Musica, he was a substitute musician for several years with the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of various ensembles, including the Orbis Quartet, the Girardi Ensemble, the Salonfähige Saitenspringer, and Szene instrumental. He has performed at prestigious events such as the Music Festival of Arts Orford in Canada, the Chamber Music Festival Tel Aviv, the International Summer Academy Prague – Vienna – Budapest, the Styriarte Festival, and the Styrian Composers’ Association, among others.
Currently, he is a guest lecturer for Jeunesse Austria, teaches at the J. J. Fux Conservatory in Graz and the Weiz Music School, and is a permanent member of Recreation – Großes Orchester Graz and the ALEA Ensemble.
• European Space Agency: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
• European Space Agency: Rosetta image archive complete
• Processed images have been released in both the Archive Image Browser and the Planetary Science Archive
All OSIRIS images are now available under a Creative Commons license
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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