On 12 November new, Google Doodle commemorates Philae robotic lander lands on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko - the first controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus.\r
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Philae is a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft until its designated landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P), more than ten years after departing Earth. Philaes mission is to land successfully on the surface of a comet, attach itself, and transmit data from the surface about the comets composition. On 12 November new, the lander achieved the first-ever controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus. Its instruments are expected to obtain the first images from a comets surface and make the first in situ analysis to determine its composition. The lander is named after Philae Island in the Nile, where an obelisk was found and used, along with the Rosetta Stone, to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.\r
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