Here's What the Comet Looks Like Next to a Stadium
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Humans just scored an interplanetary field goal. A really long one.
A few minutes after 10:30 a.m. New York time, a spacecraft named Philae ended a 10-year, 4-billion-mile journey to touch a comet. "We are sitting on the surface, and Philae is talking to us," Stephan Ulamec, the lander's project manager, said to cheers at the European Space Agency's operations center in Darmstadt, Germany.