Artist rendering of the Philae lander making a historic landing today (Nov. 12, 2014) on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA. Today the ESA successfully made space exploration history by landing a spacecraft on a comet’s surface. The suspense-ridden,...
Image: A composite image showing Mars and comet Siding Spring passing one another on Sunday. Credit: NASA, ESA, PSI, JHU/APL, STScI/AURA. NASA’s Hubble Telescope captured a very rare occurrence last weekend (10/19/14) as comet ‘Siding Spring’ brushed past Mars – an...
