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Landing a Spacecraft on a Comet is a Real Thing We Can Do

November 12, 2014 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

People can land spacecraft on comets. That is a thing we can do now, thanks to the European Space Agency’s Philae lander. I know you’re thinking hey, we’ve probed us some comets in the past, remember that Deep Impact thing back in 2005? Well, yes. But what we really meant by probed was crashed a…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: Comet, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA, landing, Philae, Rosetta

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