Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Candidate Comet Landing Sites Identified


Source - NASA Science News for August 26, 2014

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has chosen five candidate landing sites on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for its Philae lander. Philae's descent to the comet's nucleus, scheduled for this November, will be the first such landing ever attempted.

The complete article can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/26aug_rosetta/

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