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The Guardian reported that scientists believed that comet 67p could be inhabited by alien life. Scientists involved with the Rosetta mission shot down the claims and the Guardian reversed its position, writing that there is no life on the comet.
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No, its not a new sequel to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, its a serious possibility and the successful landing of the Philae probe could be a first step towards it. In fact, NASA has already funded research to look into its feasibility.
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Wednesday, Nov. 12 will either be history-making or heart-breaking.
That day will be the culmination of a ten-year project that has already taught us much about our solar system.
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Final preparations are being made for what is described as one of the biggest gambles in space history, coming up on Wednesday, November 12. After over 20 years of work, the goal of landing a probe, Philae, on a comet may soon be realized.
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NASA television will provide live coverage of the European Space Agency’s comet lander mission scheduled to touchdown on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Nov.12.
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The projected landing site where the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta comet lander is due to make comet-fall next week now has a name.
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) comet-chaser mission, already 10 years in transit, has rendezvoused with its target the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet. The ESA Rosetta probe enters orbit around the comet today, Wednesday.
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The European Space Agency has released details of space missions scheduled in 2013 and developments in prospect with current orbiters and satellites.
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Artist's impression of ESA's Rosetta comet chaser and lander Wikimedia Commons - By Rosetta_philae NASA derivative work
Comet 67P/C-G on 20 July 2015. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Artist's concept of the Rosetta mission's Philae lander on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA
Close-up of the region containing Philae’s primary landing site J, which is located on the ‘head’ of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The mosaic comprises two images taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 14 September 2014 from a distance of about 30 km. ESA
Artist impression of ESA's Rosetta approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet image was taken on 2 August 2014 by the spacecraft's navigation camera at a distance of about 500 km European Space Agency
View of comet 67P on November 4, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that was obtained on August 3rd, 2014 shows very different surface structures such as steep slopes and wide planes. ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team
Mission control: A bee-hive of activity on Wednesday, Nov. 12. ESA
This well-lit image was acquired by Philae’s CIVA camera 4 at the final landing site Abydos, on the small lobe of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, on 13 November 2014. The image shows one of the CONSERT antennas in the foreground, which seems to be in contact with the nucleus. The dimensions of the antenna, 5 mm in diameter and 693 mm long, help to provide a scale to the image. The pebble-like features, blocks and cliffs observed in the CIVA images corresponds to what has been seen at larger ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA
The Rosetta spacecraft. ESA
Philae lander closing to the surface of a comet. Frame from the movie "Chasing A Comet – The Rosetta Mission". Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
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