The Rosetta probe arrives at distant comet
I'm very excited about this. It was a hugely ambitious mission, and a very complex one, so it's great that it appears to be going to plan so far.
Maintaining a stable orbit around this comet will be very difficult. Launching a lander (planned for November) onto a rotating rock travelling at 35,000mph will be even harder.
But the rewards could be huge, taking forward our understanding of how the solar system formed. And I deliberately put this thread in the Creation/Evolution forum, because of the clues this comet might provide about how we came to be here.
There is lots of great info about this mission on the ESA website, including this fantastic video which shows the very complicated route the probe has taken over the last 10 years to rendezvous with the comet