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Philae sends first photos from the surface of a comet, after almost failing to land (updated)
2014-11-13 17:03:35| Extremetech
The European Space Agency's Philae, which made history yesterday by landing on a 2-mile-wide comet some 300 million miles away, has sent back its first photo from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The ESA has also released some more details about Philae's final descent and first few hours on the comet's surface, and they sound more like an exciting sequence from a sci-fi film than reality. Read on, for the current state of events -- and some beautiful photos, of course.
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