Artist's rendering, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="w:NASA">NASA</a>, of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency" class="extiw" title="w:European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)" class="extiw" title="w:Rosetta (spacecraft)">Rosetta</a></i> spacecraft, depicted in its in-flight configuration. The <i>Rosetta</i> mission, the first dedicated in-orbit study of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/comet" class="extiw" title="w:comet">comet</a>, employed the use of a large spacecraft to orbit the comet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko" class="extiw" title="w:67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko">67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko</a>, using its unique, purpose-built instruments to study the characteristics and nature of comets in the solar system, using 67/P as its subject of study.
ESA/ATG medialab
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