Philae landing: touchdown highlights

Philae landing: touchdown highlights

Highlights from coverage of ESA's Rosetta mission soft-landing its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. br br After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67PChuryumov–Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03 CET).


User: European Space Agency, ESA

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Uploaded: 2015-08-19

Duration: 02:01