An artist’s interpretation of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Image credit: J. Huart, ESA
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2014. A comet-bound spacecraft that’s been in sleep mode for more than two years is scheduled to wake up on the morning of Jan. 20—beginning the home stretch of its decade-long journey to a mile-wide ball of rock, dust and ice.
If all goes as planned, Rosetta—a European Space Agency-led mission that involves…
