Humankind has touched the surface of the solar system's most alien of objects.
Image taken from NAVCAM top 10 at 10 km – 10.
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“In the year 1456 … a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun… Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.” -Edmond Halley
"I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter." -Maria Mitchell
Have you heard the comet singing? From the Rosetta Blog this press release:
“In this land of ours, there are many great pits. But none more bottomless than the bottomless pit. Which, as you can see here, is bottomless.” -Grunkle Stan, Gravity Falls
Is that a hockeystick I see before me?
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw."
(Macbeth)
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