Rosetta left earth in 2004, whipped around it three times to gain speed, and caught up to a comet called 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (both seen above, in a photo taken by Rosetta’s lander). On Nov. 12, 2014, the spacecraft dropped a lander onto the comet’s surface. Here’s the decade-long journey in photographs.
A tenuous path to a comet: the Rosetta mission in photos
Bruce Willis wishes
is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.
1/16Rosetta at Europe’s spaceport September 2002: Rosetta’s lander is manipulated at Europe’s spaceport
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