Europe's Rosetta spacecraft to end epic trek with comet crash landing
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 07:21
in Astronomy & Space
FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - After 12 years chasing a comet across more 6 billion km of space, European scientists will end the historic Rosetta mission by crash landing the spacecraft on the surface of the dusty, icy body at the end of the month.