Welcome to a Comet, from Lander on Surface
The Philae lander of the European Space Agency Rosetta mission is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two images from the lander CIVA camera confirm. One of the lander three feet can be seen in the foreground.
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18876
Credit: Copyright: Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA
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