Philae Robot Lands on Comet, Bounces Twice before Settling
The Philae landing craft successfully landed on Comet 67P yesterday as part of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission. Scientists at Mission Control in Darmstadt, Germany celebrated as they received the signal from Rosetta confirming the landing.
Today We Land on a Comet
We've talked about Rosetta before. The European Space Agency's mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko took 10 years to catch up with the comet, which is about the size of a city, and which we now know is shaped like
