ScienceCasts: Mission to Land on a Comet

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Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet-- and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land a probe on it for a front row seat as the comet heads toward the sun.

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[ivano de santiago]

Challenge accepted

[keyer100]

May the force be with the probe !

[tommy mccreight]

make it escape after the primary mission and orbit mars/another comet

[Ahish Deshpande]

What will happen after it finishes testing and after 17 months, how will the lander or whatever that landed return back to earth? or will it return?

[GTA5Player1]

Sure hope this doesnt fail

[zytigon]

Is Philae going to stay active on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko until it returns to the Oort cloud ?

[skavien100]

1:43 it will start out as a little nugget

[MrGomez713]

Wow! this is all so interesting. Technology is really amazing.

[libraryquiet]

Que?!

[Dragon123561]

They are there to change it's future collision course to earth. I highly doubt that this is all for research my friends;