A montage of OSIRIS narrow-angle images used to try to identify the final touchdown point of Rosetta’s lander Philae on comet 67P. (Handout / Reuters)
Scientists celebrate Wednesday at the French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales in Toulouse, France, after receiving information that the ESA’s Philae landed on the comet. (Remy Gabalda / AFP/Getty Images)
Thomas Reiter, Jean-Jaques Dordain and Johann-Dietrich Woerner celebrate Wednesday after the successful landing of the Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at the ESA’s headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. (Ralph Orlowski / Reuters)
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Scientists work Wednesday in the scientific mission observation center of the French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales in Toulouse, France. (Remy Gabalda / AFP/Getty Images)
A model of the robot lander Philae is seen Wednesday at the Cite de l’espace (City of Space) in Toulouse, France. (Remy Gabalda / AFP/Getty Images)
A model of the ESA’s robot lander Philae at the Cite de l’espace (City of Space) in Toulouse, France. (Remy Gabalda / AFP/Getty Images)