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2016Rosetta Mission EndsESA spacecraft lands on comet to conclude missionThe European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by deliberately descending onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta had orbited the comet since 2014 and deployed the Philae lander to its surface. The mission provided unprecedented data on the composition of comets.