
A view of Mount Murphy in Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land seen on the Nov. 7, 2014.

This animated sequence shows the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander descending toward comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (not in frame) on Nov. 12, 2014.…

This image was taken by the Philae lander of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission when it was about 130…

This image of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko marks the first touchdown point of the Philae lander of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta…

The Philae lander of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these…

Nov. 12, 2014 – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 37, United Launch Alliance engineers and technicians prepare…

Nov. 12, 2014 – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 37, United Launch Alliance engineers and technicians mate…

The Philae lander of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission took this self-portrait of the spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2014,…

The Onboard Scientific Imaging System (OSIRIS) on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft captured this parting shot of the mission’s…