Candidate Comet Landing Sites Identified
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 11:20
in Astronomy & Space
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has chosen five candidate landing sites on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for its Philae lander. Philae's descent to the comet's nucleus, scheduled for this November, will be the first such landing ever attempted.