The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe made its historic rendezvous with a comet on Wednesday after a 10-year, 4 billion-mile journey.
The car-sized Rosetta probe was launched in 2004, and woke up from hibernation in January for its final approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Photo: An artist’s conception of the Rosetta probe.
[nbc]