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Published online 26 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040223-9
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Countdown to comet mission
Rosetta probe due to launch Thursday.
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission is about to blast off on its ten-year journey to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Once there, it will drop a probe on to the surface in an attempt to make the first controlled landing on a comet.
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