The Rosetta Lander

The Rosetta mission is an interplanetary mission whose main objective is to rendez-vous with and make in-situ measurements of comet 46 P/Wirtanen, in August 2011. The spacecraft will also carry the Rosetta Lander (Surface Science Package) to the nucleus and deploy it onto the comet's surface. The Lander is provided by a German-led consortium of European institutes.