I saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it.
** Rosetta comet-chaser phones home **
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft wakes from its 31-month hibernation, confirming the mission's readiness to hunt down and land on a comet.
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Interesting use of language. I used that yesterday in relation to this story.
Anyway, the comet is 4.5 km in size and since comets are called "dirty snowballs", it would seem that it would be full of carbon and ice. Perfect constituent elements to make tons of methane and lox. Yeah, but who would actually think of doing that?
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