Discovery of and farewell to Philae
Discovery of and farewell to Philae
After a 10-year journey through space, the Rosetta comet orbiter reached the orbit of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet in August 2014. In November 2014, the washing machine-sized Philae probe landed on the comet and sent data from its surface. As Philae had eventually landed some distance from its original landing site, scientists had long been unable to determine the probe's exact location. They only recently discovered the landing craft, during the run up to the end of the mission in September 2016.
