AP / Yahoo News: Space agency releases 1st picture from comet (The need to attempt seemingly impossible exploits of exploration is likely partly genetic among the being-demographically-erased European peoples.)

Space agency releases 1st picture from comet

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency on Thursday published the first image taken from the surface of a comet, and said that its Philae lander is still "stable" despite a failure to latch on properly to the rocky terrain.

The lander scored a historic first Wednesday, touching down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a decade-long, 6.4 billion-kilometer (4 billion-mile) journey through space aboard its mother ship Rosetta. ...

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