Stephan Ulamec, head of the Philae lander team at DLR, provides an update after touchdown on the comet.
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Stephan Ulamec, head of the Philae lander team at DLR, provides an update after touchdown on the comet.
Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.
Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft closed out a historic 4.9-billion-mile journey Friday with a slow-speed crash into the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the tiny world it has studied for the last two years, capturing some of the mission’s best science data to help unravel the inner workings of the comet. Confirmation of the crash landing arrived on Earth at 1119 GMT (7:19 a.m. EDT).
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