This morning, the Rosetta spacecraft made history. After a 10 year chase through the Solar System, the probe finally arrived at the comet 67P/CG, making it the first spacecraft ever to rendezvous with a comet. The mission, perhaps the most ambitious one ever undertaken by the European Space Agency, will now join the comet as it begins a lap around the sun, heats up, and releases stores of ice in a cloud of dust and gas.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:27:05 +0000
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