The Rosetta space mission’s Philae lander is set to become the key to furthering our understanding of the formation of our solar system and the origins of life when it attempts the first ever soft landing on a comet on November 12, 2014.
On board is the UK-led Ptolemy instrument which will perform on-the-spot analysis of the composition of the ices and organic material within the comet. After a decade-long journey through space, Rosetta has already become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet and has been orbiting 67P since August 2014. Since the rendezvous, Rosetta (supported…
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