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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Sam who wrote (306009)7/27/2016 6:03:26 PM
From: T L Comiskey   of 541673
 
Paris (AFP) -

Earth bid a final farewell to robot lab Philae on Wednesday, severing communications after a year-long silence from the pioneering probe hurtling through space on a comet.

Writing an extraordinary chapter in space history, the washing machine-sized craft was the first to land on a comet -- primeval rubble from the formation of the Solar System.

Philae sent home reams of data garnered from sniffing, tasting and prodding its new alien home hundreds of millions of kilometres (miles) from Earth.

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