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On November 12, 2014 Nasa tried to land a satillite named Philae on a Comet called Rosetta Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Philae is a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft until its designed landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, over ten years after departing Earth. On 12 November 2014, the lander achieved the first-ever controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus. Its instruments are expected to obtain the first images from a comet's surface and make the first in situ analysis to determine its composition.