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The Rosetta spacecraft releases a lander onto a comet nucleus
- Reference
- e-son30-00124
- Date
- 2017-01-10
Artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
The image is not to scale; the Rosetta spacecraft measures 32 m across including the solar arrays, while the comet nucleus is thought to be about 4 km wide.