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Rosetta's second swing
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This handout picture from the European Space Agency (ESA) retrieved on September 3, shows an artist's rendition of ESA's probe Rosetta's closest approach to Earth during its second swing-by of our planet on November 13. The image shows the fly-by configuration as seen from above. Rosetta is due to rendezvous in 2014 with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, sending down a refrigerator-sized lab to examine its crusty surface however, its 6.5-billion-kilometre (4.06-billion-mile) odyssey will be interrupted on Friday, when the craft will get down to some serious science as it zooms through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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