Rosetta Landing

11-12-2014 Update: 12:12 pm CET / 6:12 am ET

After a tense wait, relief spreads through the control room as ESA re-establishes contact with both Rosetta and Philae, which are now talking to each other. Mission control managers can now watch Philae through its slow, unpowered descent.

http://news.sciencemag.org/europe/2014/11/live-blog-rosetta-comet-landing