--- title: Rosetta Philae: Best Photos of Spacecraft's Journey to Comet 67P description: The European Space Agency's Philae probe, which detached from Rosetta, successfully landed on Comet 67p/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Wednesday canonical: https://time.com/3581141/see-rosetta-photos-comet-67p/ author: Mia Tramz article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-12T16:30:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:47.155Z article:section: Science og:title: See the Rosetta Spacecraft's Best Photos of Comet 67P og:description: Europe's Philae space probe made this historic landing on Wednesday og:url: https://time.com/3581141/see-rosetta-photos-comet-67p/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e6a8e9ec354d930/6987685a0b72e3a9c06dbdeb/rosetta-comet-landing-008.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: rosetta-comet-landing-008 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Rosetta Spacecraft's Best Photos of Comet 67P twitter:description: Europe's Philae space probe made this historic landing on Wednesday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e6a8e9ec354d930/6987685a0b72e3a9c06dbdeb/rosetta-comet-landing-008.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Rosetta Spacecraft's Best Photos of Comet 67P by [Mia Tramz](https://time.com/author/mia-tramz/) and [Adam Glanzman](https://time.com/author/adam-glanzman/) Nov 12, 2014 4:30 PM UTC  A 'selfie' composite image from a camera on the Rosetta mission’s Philae comet lander shows Comet 67P. A 'selfie' composite image from a camera on the Rosetta mission’s Philae comet lander shows Comet 67P.ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM by [Mia Tramz](https://time.com/author/mia-tramz/) and [Adam Glanzman](https://time.com/author/adam-glanzman/) Nov 12, 2014 4:30 PM UTC  This image shows comet 67P/CG and was acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on Nov. 12, 2014, 14:38:41 UT from a distance of approximately 3 km from the surface. ESA/Rosetta/Philae/ROLIS/DLR/H  A 'selfie' composite image from a camera on the Rosetta mission’s Philae comet lander shows Comet 67P. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM  Comet 67P on Oct. 28, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM  Comet 67P in a photo released on Aug. 6, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM  Comet 67P on Sept. 26, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM  Comet 67P on Oct. 18, 2014 ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM  Comet 67P on Nov. 4, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM  Comet 67P on Aug. 3, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3581141/see-rosetta-photos-comet-67p/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3581141/see-rosetta-photos-comet-67p/"},"headline":"See the Rosetta Spacecraft's Best Photos of Comet 67P","datePublished":"2014-11-12T16:30:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:50:47.155Z","description":"The European Space Agency's Philae probe, which detached from Rosetta, successfully landed on Comet 67p/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Wednesday","url":"https://time.com/3581141/see-rosetta-photos-comet-67p/","keywords":["Space","NASA","photography","Space Exploration","esa"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e6a8e9ec354d930/6987685a0b72e3a9c06dbdeb/rosetta-comet-landing-008.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mia Tramz","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mia-tramz/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Adam Glanzman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/adam-glanzman/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e6a8e9ec354d930/6987685a0b72e3a9c06dbdeb/rosetta-comet-landing-008.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"rosetta-comet-landing-008","caption":"Selfie spacecraft and comet","creditText":"ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3581141/see-rosetta-photos-comet-67p/","name":"See the Rosetta Spacecraft's Best Photos of Comet 67P"}}]}] ```