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Title
Rosetta awakes.
Abstract
The author discusses the Rosetta spacecraft of the European Space Agency that has commenced the next mission phase of landing on the nucleus of a comet and move towards the sun. Topics discussed include orbiting of comet by the spacecraft in a distance of 20 kilometers followed by surface analysis, use of asteroids for navigation and extraction of metals like platinum, iridium and palladium from asteroids with spacecrafts.