Tag: Rosetta and Philae

• Thursday, November 13th 2014 - 07:46 UTC

  Europe makes history successfully landing spacecraft on a comet, a ten year precision cosmic chase

  

  A European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet, an audacious cosmic first designed to answer big questions about the origin of the universe. The landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko required immense precision, as even the slightest error could have resulted in cosmic calamity.