IN NOVEMBER the public's imagination was briefly caught by the adventures of a plucky little spacecraft called Philae. This craft, the pup of a mother ship known as Rosetta, made a bouncy landing onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which Rosetta was orbiting. Philae worked for but a couple of days, and after it died attention turned elsewhere. But Rosetta has continued to operate, and her reports have now been distilled into a series of papers, just published in Science, that gi...
IN NOVEMBER the public's imagination was briefly caught by the adventures of a plucky little spacecraft called Philae. This craft, the pup of a mother ship known as Rosetta, made a bouncy landing onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which Rosetta was orbiting. Philae worked for but a couple of days, and after it died attention turned elsewhere. But Rosetta has continued to operate, and her reports have now been distilled into a series of papers, just published in Science, that gi...
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