OMG Philae finds life (well, not quite…)

Somewhere at an imprecise location on a distant comet sits a humble spacecraft. After a bouncy landing at the ‘Agilkia’ site of the 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko comet, little Philae withstood a fair few bumps before grinding to a halt at what scientists now call ‘Abydos’. The new, dark location ensured that Philae’s solar battery reserves only lasted for some sixty hours before it went into hibernation.
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