re: Europeans to land on comet soon *Live Feed*

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What's sad is that people don't realize or appreciate how incredible this is. We just landed a spacecraft on a fricking asteroid/comet. That's amazing.

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not only that, but we didn't really know what the surface of the comet would be like until we got there. so Rosetta pretty much had to transport the lander there, then try to pick a spot where philae could land, then drop it right into that spot