A Charming Animation Summarizes the European Space Agency Rosetta Mission to Land a Spacecraft on a Comet

A charming animation summarizes the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission which successfully landed a spacecraft on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on November 12, 2014. The animation is the latest in a series of videos that personify the Rosetta and Philae craft and depict various stages of the mission.

Rosetta and Philae were ready for their biggest challenge yet: landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. As Rosetta bid her lander farewell and sent him to the comet’s surface, the whole world looked on, anxious to see what would happen next…