European Spacecraft Pulls Alongside Comet “After 10 Years And A Journey Of Four Billion Miles, The

European Spacecraft Pulls Alongside Comet “After 10 Years And A Journey Of Four Billion Miles, The

European Spacecraft Pulls Alongside Comet “After 10 years and a journey of four billion miles, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its destination on Wednesday for the first extended, close examination of a comet. A six-minute thruster firing at 5 a.m. Eastern time, the last in a series of 10 over the past few months, slowed Rosetta to the pace of a person walking, about two miles per hour relative to the speed of its target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.”

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