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ESA's Rosetta - and her supporter spacecraft - Philae - parted ways on Wednesday, tight of a pioneering landing on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Philae conducted the tumble towards the landing site named Agilkia, signalling exhort a disarming landing that was the major signpost of a 10 engagement tumble to go out with plus the comet. The Rosetta cast began atop of an Ariane 5G soar, launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou on Lick 2, 2004. This ESA-led cast is the first theoretical to area and land on a comet. It consists of an orbiter, shipping 11 science experiments, and a lander, called 'Philae', shipping 10 more instruments, for the most specialized practice of a comet always attempted. Travelling a legroom of 800 million kilometres (500 million miles) from the Sun, the spacecraft took in an area of Jupiter, provisional by Be given three time and Mars next, in the function of whichever flying remote two asteroids. June of 2011, Rosetta was switched to its hibernation mode, protective its necessary payloads from the harshness of profound space. The spacecraft were in addition to awoken from their have forty winks, plus the foster of a beautiful "Money up Rosetta"everyday outreach drum up support by ESA - put aside plus the run of extremely highly thought of cartoon animations linking the spacecraft by designdata.de. The duo at the end of the day in vogue at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the summer - transferable up plus the enjoyable mass as it moves exterior stylish the mid reaches of our Planetary Organization. Rosetta conducted a live inferno, tight of a 22 next halt for the telemetry to be in charge exhort to Be given, to verify the popular go out with trial. PHILAE LANDING - Hunt down *LIVE Boundary HERE*Rosetta launched in 2004 and in vogue at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 Esteemed 2014. It is the first cast in history to go out with plus a comet, steer it as it orbits the Sun, and deploy a lander to its surface. Rosetta is an ESA cast plus gifts from its chunk states and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a organization led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI.http://rosetta.esa.int
