Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Reaches Destination After Decade
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Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft reached its final destination today after a decade-long journey into deep space that aims to place the first lander on a comet.
Rosetta began orbiting the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet to glean information about the mass of dirty ice, dust and gas, according to the European Space Agency, which launched the probe in 2004. In November, it’s due to send a smaller landing craft down onto the comet to take more measurements.