On its ten-year journey to rendezvous with a comet, ESAs Rosetta probe is visiting home for the third and last time on 13 November. It will be the last of its four planetary gravity assists - in 2007 Rosetta also had a swingby at Mars - each time picking up energy to reach its final target in 2014. Although a delicate moment for spacecraft controllers, the Earth swingby will be used to test all the science instruments and to make an innovative contribution to the search for water on the Moon.

This A & B-Roll from ESA TV was released last week and describes the Earth swingby, the science observations and the next key moment of the mission including interviews with Rosettas ESA Project Scientist, its principal investigators and the spacecraft controllers (note: this is a low-res preview).

Click on 'Full story' to watch video. -- Daniel