Rosetta probe to reach comet after 10-year journey

A European spacecraft is due to rendezvous with an icy comet tomorrow after an epic 10-year journey across the Solar System.

Rosetta probe to reach comet after 10-year journey

A European spacecraft is due to rendezvous with an icy comet tomorrow after an epic 10-year journey across the Solar System.

Launched in March 2004, the Rosetta probe’s odyssey has already taken it four billion miles across the asteroid belt and more than five times the Earth’s distance from the Sun.

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