Europe's Rosetta mission officially ended Friday when the spacecraft purposefully crashed into its comet after spending two year orbiting the icy object in deep space.
As the mission came to its end, the European Space Agency (ESA) released a moving, adorable cartoon video showing an animated version of Rosetta's final moments.*
In the two-minute short, you can see Rosetta slowly descend to the surface of its comet, softly touching down **t far from the Philae lander sleeping silently nearby.
Philae became the first human-made spacecraft to softly land on the surface of a comet in **vember 2014, but its life was short. The washing machine sized robot landed in an unexpected part of comet 67P after bouncing on its surface, coming to rest in a lopsided position that only allowed it e**ugh battery life to beam back data for a couple of days.* Read more...
09-30-2016, 07:02 PM
This adorable video about the Rosetta comet mission will make you cry
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