Sentence examples for surface of a comet from inspiring English sources

On Thursday the lander sent back historic first images taken from the surface of a comet.

This week, the European Space Agency made scientific history by landing a probe on the surface of a comet.

Who can fail to be entranced by the first-ever pictures from the surface of a comet that were taken this week?

The agency chose InSight over a voyage on the methane seas of Saturn's moon Titan; or a hop, skip and jump across the surface of a comet.

ALL of Europe rejoiced when the European Space Agency deposited Philae, a probe the size of a kitchen appliance, on the surface of a comet 300m miles (480m km) from the Earth.

The recent success of the Rosetta mission, in which scientists managed to deposit a lander on the surface of a comet as it hurtled along at 135,000 kilometers per hour, stole headlines the world over and sparked a wave of excitement that spread from mission control to offices and schoolrooms.

Nevertheless, the mission's main goal of landing a probe softly on the surface of a distant comet appeared to have been a resounding success.

For the first time, humanity has a physical presence on the icy surface of a passing comet – cosmic objects that have both fascinated and terrified human beings since the dawn of history.

The selection of the site brings the Rosetta team one step closer to being the first to land a spacecraft directly on the surface of a speeding comet. .

Engineers will now finesse the probe's trajectory and prepare its instruments for the planned encounter with the surface of a 4.5km-wide comet in November.

Eventually, missions will evolve which feature mobile robotic vehicles being able to traverse across the surface of an asteroid or comet nucleus, enabling scientific and technological investigations at a number of sites on the surface.