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ESA preparing Rosetta orbiter for final mission - crashing and dying

14 September 2016

After around two years of studying Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta craft is set to begin its deliberate crash landing onto the icy comet. The probe still has a lot of scientific value. ESA investigators are trying to squeeze every last bit of data from their mission.






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