The European Space Agency launched Rosetta more than 10 years ago from Kourou in French Guiana.
Since then Rosetta and Philae have travelled more than six billion kilometres to land on the comet.
The comet orbits the sun at over 135,000 km/h.
A European project
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It’s the era of the trickster and three-card trick merchant
This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane We live in the strangest of times and I can’t help thinking that it’s the era ...
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In the current edition of the Irish Catholic David Quin writes about the controversy happening between US Catholic politicians and the US hi...
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Former Dominican priest Tom Tom Brodie Brodie died in a nursing home in Galway yesterday. He had been ailing for some time. He was born in C...
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The story below is from The Irish Times of yesterday. The article is written by Arthur Beesley. On face value this is a shocking story and i...
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