30-09-2016 16:37 via theverge.com

This is what it looks like to crash (very, very softly) onto a comet

Earlier this morning, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft took a leisurely dive onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
After 12 years in space and more than two years orbiting the comet, Rosetta was moving far away from the Sun and running out of juice. Scientists decided that instead of letting the spacecraft simply drift away, they'd execute one last maneuver — a 20-kilometer flop at two miles per hour onto the comet's surface, cameras and scienti
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