We're landing on a comet

The Rosetta spacecraft has spent three years peering at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from orbit—but this week, its watch will end. Tomorrow, Rosetta begins a controlled descent to its final resting place on the edge of an enormous pit, where it’ll remain frozen until the space rock itself is destroyed, or until the universe expands into oblivion.

It’s an emotional time for the Rosetta mission team, but also an exciting one. The final hours of Rosetta’s life are expected to yield some of the juiciest scientific data of the entire mission—the sharpest images yet of a comet’s surface, our very first whiffs of the gas directly above it, and much more. Best of all, the entire world is going to be able to follow along, with key moments of the descent, including images, streamed online in real time. Credits: 

http://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-to-watch-rosetta-crash-into-1787179215?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

http://www.wesh.com/video/buzz60/historic-rosetta-spacecraft-crashes-into-comet/41895410