This spidery spacecraft will be the first to soft-land on a comet
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft is preparing to wake up in January from a nearly three-year-long hibernation period as it prepares for a close encounter with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. If all goes well, Rosetta should reach its destination in August and, after a couple of months in a mapping orbit, the probe will deploy a…
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Elizabeth Howell — Universe Today
