Quick trip around Mars on Sunday

The European comet chaser Rosetta will do a fly-by around Mars Sunday to get a gravity boost on its way to the comet Churyumov Gerasimenko. The 10 year trip includes a total of three gravity boosts from Earth and one from Mars before the craft catches up to and matches orbit with the comet. Then in 2014 it will release a lander in the first attempted controlled landing on a comet.


UPDATE: Space probe performs Mars fly-by


A Rosetta camera views dust or clouds in Mars' atmosphere
Courtesy BBC News