space boffins might like this story..

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/08/04/4057060.htm?WT.mc_id=Innovation_Innovation-Science|RosettaHasAlmostLanded_FBP|abc

After a 10-year chase through space, the Rosetta spacecraft has caught up with the comet that will reveal secrets of our solar system. The next few months will be critical for the historic mission.
Comets are older than the solar system itself — frozen leftovers of the same primordial dust and gas from which the Sun and planets formed. To study the composition of a comet is to glimpse back more than 4.6 billion years in time and chemistry.

Of the billions of comets in our system, only a few have been seen up close, and none has undergone the kind of rigorous examination that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be subjected to over upcoming months.

For the last 10 years, the Rosetta spacecraft has been on a mission to catch up with the comet as it hurtles towards the Sun from deep space.

more at link

Arts said:

space boffins might like this story..

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/08/04/4057060.htm?WT.mc_id=Innovation_Innovation-Science|RosettaHasAlmostLanded_FBP|abc

After a 10-year chase through space, the Rosetta spacecraft has caught up with the comet that will reveal secrets of our solar system. The next few months will be critical for the historic mission.
Comets are older than the solar system itself — frozen leftovers of the same primordial dust and gas from which the Sun and planets formed. To study the composition of a comet is to glimpse back more than 4.6 billion years in time and chemistry.

Of the billions of comets in our system, only a few have been seen up close, and none has undergone the kind of rigorous examination that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be subjected to over upcoming months.

For the last 10 years, the Rosetta spacecraft has been on a mission to catch up with the comet as it hurtles towards the Sun from deep space.

more at link

Sure… but does it have drill rigs and a nuclear bomb on board.. ??

I wonder if Liv Tyler would approve…

Interesting, but: >An artist’s impression of Rosetta and Philae at comet 67P. In reality, the comet looks like a rubber duck<

So why didn’t they picture it as a rubber duck?

The images confirm ‘rubber duck’ shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko This one, taken a few days ago, shows the comet at a distance of just 620 miles

looks more like a boot

An ugg boot, not the fancy boot like Italy.

or a baby bootie

An ugg boot after its owner has stepped in a bucket of cement.

has it tumbles it changes shape to the camera view

I read that the craft is spiraling as it moves towards the rock

does it do this for more maneuvering