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Comet-probing robot to wake from hibernation

Rosetta orbiter. Photo: courtesy

Paris, France: A fridge-sized robot lab hurtling through the Solar System aboard a European probe is about to wake from hibernation and prepare for the first-ever landing by a spacecraft on a comet.

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