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Photo by ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVARosetta’s lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander’s three feet can be seen in the foreground. The image is a two-image mosaic.

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When some people want to discover where we as a human species came from, they dig in the earth - or, more appropriately, the Earth. To answer the same question, others look outward into the galaxy and far beyond.

November 13, 2014
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