[crater] This crater formation has been heavily damaged by subsequent impacts, and is now a battered depression in the surface. An unnamed crater overlays the eastern rim, and the remaining inner wall is incised along much of its circumference by lesser impacts. One of these forms a trough in the northern inner wall, with side walls that ex... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champollion_(crater)
[spacecraft] Champollion was a planned cometary rendezvous and landing spacecraft. It was named after Jean-François Champollion, a French Egyptologist known for translating the Rosetta stone. == Rosetta surface science package == As originally envisaged, the joint NASA/CNES Champollion was to be one of two surface science packages for the ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champollion_(spacecraft)
Also known as Space Technology 4; the fourth mission in NASA's New Millennium Program. Its goal was to have landed scientific instruments on the nucleus of a comet and demonstrate technologies for collecting extraterrestrial samples for return to Earth (see comet sample return probes). A launch in 2... Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/Champollion.html