Rosetta prepares to let go of its comet lander

Everything is still on track for scientists to land a robotic probe on a comet called comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 12.

There are still seven critical moments that the Rosetta spacecraft has to get through before the landing is considered a success, but in a November 7 briefing mission scientists appeared confident that the probe would be dispatched to the comet as planned. 

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