☄️ Comet
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
The first comet a spacecraft circled and landed on.
- Discovered
- 1969, by Klim Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko
Did you know?
- The European Space Agency’s Rosetta circled it from August 2014, and its small lander, Philae, touched down on it.
- It is so full of gaps that it weighs less than the same amount of water would.
- Rosetta ended its mission in 2016 by gently crashing onto its surface.
More NASA photos of Comet 67P/Churyumov–GerasimenkoStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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