--- description: Christopher Nolan's Interstellar isn't the only thing getting people excited about space. On Wednesday, the European Space Agency’s Philae lander made a news breaking touchdown... title: How Twitter Responded to the Comet Landing image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Science](/section/science/) ## Science Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Space](/tag/space/) ## Space Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Twitter Explode During the Comet Landing by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 12, 2014 8:21 PM CUT by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 12, 2014 8:21 PM CUT Christopher Nolan’s [_Interstellar_](http://time.com/3572988/interstellar-science-fact-check/ "undefined") isn’t the only thing [getting people excited about space](http://time.com/3578557/tyson-interstellar-tweets/ "undefined"). On Wednesday, the European Space Agency’s Philae lander made a news breaking touchdown on a comet. The event was unprecedented, and a thrilling result to a $1.3 billion for a 10-year mission. You can see how Twitter reacted to the mission below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3581809/comet-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3581809/comet-twitter/"},"headline":"Watch Twitter Explode During the Comet Landing","datePublished":"2014-11-12T20:21:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:23:45.472Z","description":"Christopher Nolan's Interstellar isn't the only thing getting people excited about space. On Wednesday, the European Space Agency’s Philae lander made a news breaking touchdown...","url":"https://time.com/3581809/comet-twitter/","keywords":["Space","twitter","Comet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"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/3581809/comet-twitter/","name":"Watch Twitter Explode During the Comet Landing"}}]}] ```