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Earthlings, We Landed on a Comet

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A decade in the making, Wednesday marks the culmination of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta comet mission—and the seventh world humans have landed robots on.

Matthew R. Francis
Matthew R. Francis
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Matthew R. Francis

Matthew R. Francis

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