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European space probe resting on comet’s surface

(Reuters) – A European probe that landed on a comet in a first for space exploration is resting on the surface despite technical problems, pictures beamed half a billion kilometers (300 million miles) back to Earth showed on Thursday. The lander, named Philae, was launched from its mothership Rosetta on Wednesday as it orbited comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the climax of a 10-year-odyssey for the European Space Agency (ESA). But during Philae’s seven-hour descent to the comet, […]