Rosetta Spacecraft Photographs Itself

As part of its mission checkout tests in May 2004, the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Rosetta spacecraft snapped a self-portrait using the CIVA camera aboard its lander, Philae. Rosetta will study Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko while orbiting the comet and will drop the Philae lander to study the comet's surface.

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