October 14, 2014 1:28 PM EDT
E urope’s Rosetta spacecraft took a selfie published Tuesday that is, quite literally, out of this world.
Rosetta’s mission is to land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The spacecraft is very close to its target, enough that the comet appears in the background of this image only 16km away.
Rosetta, dubbed Europe’s “comet chaser,” went into space in 2004. It had many things on its to-do list, including eventually landing on 67P. But for now, Mission Selfie accomplished.
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