On this day: 12 November 2014, ESA’s Rosetta Mission made history by landing a probe on the surface of a comet, the First Ever to do so. After a tense seven-hour wait during the descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the successful touchdown of the Philae lander arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03 CET).
+++ Update +++ Rosetta’s lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander…
