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End of mission: ESA's Rosetta spacecraft collides with comet [i]The first spacecraft to orbit a comet and deploy a lander to its surface came to its end Friday (Sept. 30) with its own controlled impact on the dusty-icy body. The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe descended to a pitted region of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, bringing its 12.5-year journey to a finish. The mission was ended due to the spacecraft's increasing distance from the sun, reducing the available solar power needed to operate it and its instruments. Confirmation of the mission's end came from the European Space Agency (ESA) control room at 7:19 a.m. EDT (1119 GMT). It took 40 minutes for the last signal from the probe to reach Earth.[/i]
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