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Rosetta Team Proposes Landing On Comet To Finish Mission

Posted by timothy on from the just-like-land-or-whatever dept.

schwit1 writes: Rather than simply turn off the spacecraft when its funding runs out at the end of 2015, Rosetta's science team has proposed that the mission get a nine-month extension, during which they will slowly spiral into the comet and gently land. Their proposal is similar to what American scientists did with their NEAR spacecraft, which hadn't been designed to land on an asteroid but was successfully eased onto the surface of Eros, where it operated for a very short time.

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  1. It's not important by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's more important is that they all wear shirts that don't hurt fragile women's minds

    1. Re:It's not important by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't be so narrow minded. What about sandwiches?

    2. Re:It's not important by davester666 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Because "Bitches And Sandwiches Are Only Useful For Fucking" sounds crazy.

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