After a 10-year, 4-billion-mile journey through deep space, a European probe will finally arrive at its comet destination this week.
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko today, August 6th. If all goes according to plan, Rosetta will become the first probe ever to orbit a comet — and, in November, the first to drop a lander onto the surface of one of these icy wanderers.
6th August approach
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