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The Rosetta lander on a comet nucleus

by

Ron Miller/Novapix

Reference

e-son30-00129

Date

2017-01-10

Artist’s impression of Rosetta’s lander Philae on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Philae will be deployed to the comet in November 2014 where it will make in situ observations of the comet surface, including drilling 23cm into the subsurface to extract material for analysis in its on board laboratory.