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Friday, September 30, 2016

Spacecraft Crash-Lands on Comet | VIDEO

Rosetta Comet

     DARMSTADT, Germany — For the last two years, the Rosetta spacecraft has danced around a comet. Today, it finally made contact with the icy body — and sent its last signal.
Megan Gannon
Space.com
9-30-16

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta probe ended its historic mission with a controlled descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko early this morning (Sept. 30). Scientists here at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) received the confirmation of landing from the spacecraft at about 1:19 p.m. local time (7:19 a.m. EDT/1119 GMT). ...



1 comment :

  1. Terry the Censor8:11 PM

    Not long ago, such a headline would have been imagined only by the staff of the National Enquirer ... now it's reality!

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