Goodness, what a plethora of news items to comment on today. First the good news. A satellite launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency (Esa) carried a robot probe called Philae on a mission to learn about the origins of our Solar System. Esa’s Rosetta satellite took 10-years to travel 6.4 billion-km (4bn-mile) to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. That in itself is mind-boggling. All of those scientists biting their nails, waiting for news. They deserved their tears of joy. Can you remember what you were doing ten years ago? Philae – I keep wanting to call it Phyllis – has already sent back images of the craggy surface. The concern is that the landing was awkward – including a 1 km. bounce back into space…
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