European Space Agency select a landing site for Philae

(The location of the primary landing site shown in context of comet 67P/C-G – Photo Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team et al)

The ‘head’ of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been selected by the European Space Agency as the primary site for Rosetta’s Philae lander, which will make history and perform the first ever landing on a comet in November.

European Space Agency selects five possible landing sites for Rosetta mission

(This annotated image depicts four of the five potential landing sites for Rosetta’s Philae lander – Photo Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team et al)

Using detailed information collected by the Rosetta spacecraft during its first two weeks orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency have identified five candidate landing sites for the robotic Philae lander which will make history and descend from Rosetta and land on the comet’s nucleus in November.