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Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67P [View all]
Source: BBC
Europe's Rosetta probe has arrived at a comet after a 10-year chase.
In a first for space history, the spacecraft was manoeuvred alongside a speeding body to begin mapping its surface in detail.
The spacecraft fired its thrusters for six and a half minutes to finally catch up with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
"We're at the comet!" said Sylvain Lodiot of the European Space Agency (Esa) operations centre in Germany.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28659783
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