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Rosetta's Lost Comet Lander Philae Could Wake ­p in May Sunshine


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Credit:ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

Spring is seen as a time of renewal. Flowers bloom. Days get longer. New life emerges. Something similar could happen on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the object of the European Space Agency's ambitious Rosetta mission.

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