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Rosetta space probe ready to be launched in less than a month?

Rome, Italy - The mission is to study comets' mysteries

For the first time in the history of the human kind a spacecraft will take off from the Earth to study the mysteries of the comets directly on the place. It is to say landing on the head of the Wirtanen comet. The comet will be reached on November the 29th in 2011 and in the month of August 2012 will send a lander on the center of the comet where will be be made analysis of the surface and of the...

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Rome, Italy, 12/10/2002 16:43
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