Ten years ago the European Space Agency launched Rosetta, a
first-of-its-kind spacecraft on a mission to meet a comet. That comet?
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It finally accomplished that goal in August -
getting into the comet's orbit. But it's not done yet. Tomorrow, Nov.
12 Rosetta will deploy a small probe that, if successful, will land on
the comet - the first time we've ever landed on the surface of a comet
(intentionally). Before Rosetta, we knew comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
as just a speck of light - as we do most comets. It's hard to really
see what a comet is like because comets are extremely small.
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