A year already?
It's flown by. (sorry)
More seriously, here's to more excellent science from this wonderful project.
More than a decade after its launch, the spacecraft Rosetta reached Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and as it approaches perihelion with the Sun, the ESA is celebrating a year since Rosetta reached its target. As we well know, rendezvous wasn't without incident: instead of dropping neatly on the surface of 67P, the mission's …
"since the comet will be at its warmest, it will also be at its most active."
It will heat up at its fastest at that point, but it will still keep absorbing heat and getting more active for some time to come. In the same way as Summer is after the summer solstice - it's a while before it reaches maximum temperature and starts cooling off..
Hearty congratulations to the ESA and associated teams. Even if we learn very little else, this entire venture must surely go down as smashing success. PhDs may scoff and sneer all they like but, engineers made this work.