Rosetta's Final Resting Place Has Been Chosen

In August 2014, the space mission Rosetta rendezvoused with the four-kilometer-long comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and made history. It was the first spacecraft ever to orbit a comet, and the first to send a probe to the surface. It has returned thousands of images of the double-lobed comet to Earth, and given scientists enough data to spend a lifetime examining. But it's also time for the mission to come to an end. Over the past few weeks the orbiter's trajectory has been changed, bringing it...