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Earthlings, We Landed on a Comet

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A decade in the making, Wednesday marks the culmination of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta comet mission—and the seventh world humans have landed robots on.

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Up to today, humanity has landed robotic spacecraft on six other worlds: the Moon, Mars, Venus, Saturn’s moon Titan, and the asteroids Eros and Itokawa.

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