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Rosetta was the first mission to orbit and land on a comet

The ESA probe rendezvoused with Comet 67P in 2014 to study its surface

In August 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft became the first mission to orbit a comet nucleus, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Three months later, Rosetta deployed the Philae lander onto the icy, duck-shaped comet surface, collecting unprecedented measurements of organic compounds.

Rosetta's Comet photograph — ESO/Colin Snodgrass (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) · CC BY 4.0 · licence · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The ESA probe rendezvoused with Comet 67P in 2014 to study its surface. The figure is taken from ESA, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a space fact?: Yes. It sits on the Space shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.