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The first spacecraft to orbit a comet has ended its mission with a soft belly-flop onto the comet itself.

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The first spacecraft to orbit a comet has ended its mission with a soft belly-flop onto the comet itself.
Friday, September 30, 2016 7:24 AM EDT

Rosetta, the first spacecraft to orbit a comet, is now dead, quietly landing on the companion it has observed for the past two years.

Its final radio signals arrived at the mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany at 7:20 a.m. Eastern time after it hit Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at a speed of 2 miles per hour, slower than a walk.

Before it went silent, it collected and sent back one last batch of data and images, including some very close-up shots of the comet’s surface.
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