Europe's audacious bid to put a robot on the surface of a comet is under way.

At 08:35 GMT, the Rosetta satellite released its Philae lander towards Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a large mass of ice and dust some 510 million km from Earth.

The descent should take seven hours, with a signal confirming touchdown received at Earth at around 16:00 GMT.

Success would be a first for space exploration - no mission has previously made a soft landing on a comet.



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If this comes off that will be some achievement.

Its landed ok wow

Just watched the footage on C4 news. Wow, it really is mind-bending!!