Description
A humble bath toy to many, this rubber duck fulfilled a much greater potential as a tool in a space mission that (amongst other things) investigated the origins of life on Earth
Image credits:
ESA/ATG medialab
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Touchdown 1: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/ROLIS/DLR; all other images: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team
MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; Analysis: O’Rourke et al (2020)
The Open University / ESA
ESA website (www.esa.int)