Rosetta: mission to land on a comet

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Mar 30, 2012 8:00 PMNov 20, 2019 1:58 AM

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In 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe will enter orbit around a comet -- the first time this will have ever been done -- and then drop a lander on it -- and oh yeah, that's the first time this will have ever been done, too. I'm pretty excited about this mission, and NASA and ESA have put together this really well-done video explaining the mission and what it'll do:

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