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Rosetta to sleep through loneliest leg of comet mission

June 4, 2011 by Actaphysica
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On June 8, 2011, mission controllers will have the first opportunity to switch the European Space Agency’s Rosetta comet-hunter into deep-space hibernation for 31 months. During this loneliest leg of its decade-long mission, Rosetta will loop ever closer toward comet 67-P, soaring to almost one billion kilometers from Earth.
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