Spaceflight101 Coverage of Rosetta's final Dive to Comet 67P

More than 700 million Kilometers from Earth, in the dark regions of our Solar System, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft placed itself on a collision course with comet 67P to put the exclamation mark behind a remarkable mission of discovery, beginning to unlock the secrets from a distant past. Rosetta’s twelve-and-a-half-year odyssey comes to an end on Friday, when, at around 11:20 UTC, when the orbiter will make a gentle touchdown on the surface of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko which it explored for the past two years to help understand the conditions under which the solar system was formed and how the ingredients of life may have been delivered to Earth.