{"id":114001,"date":"2015-02-26T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=114001"},"modified":"2024-08-30T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T23:24:57","slug":"catching-comet-excel-power-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2015\/02\/26\/catching-comet-excel-power-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching a comet with Excel Power Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today\u2019s post was written by Thomas Nhan, program manager on the Excel team.<\/em><\/p>\n The recent news that the Rosetta spacecraft made the closest approach ever to the Comet 67P\/Churymov-Gerasimenko \u00a0(Comet 67P), inspired the Excel Power Map team. Rosetta was launched on March 2, 2004 to reach Comet 67P by following the Comet\u2019s path from the outer edge back to Sun. And although Power Map is widely used to map Earth-bound geographical data, we used the custom map feature to plot the trajectory of Earth, Mars, Comet 67P and Rosetta, by visualizing their paths through time (well, since 2004). And then we created a video of Rosetta probe’s rendezvous with Comet 67P:<\/p>\n