European Comet-Chaser to Activate

The European Space Agency announced that its comet-chasing space probe will "wake up" Monday from a three-year "slumber" and start sending data back to Earth. After a 10-year journey, the Rosetta space probe will activate and send a message back to Earth. The craft is expected to begin operating at 10:00 UTC, but because it will take several hours to warm up and the message must travel 800 million kilometers to reach Earth, the agency said it expects to receive the...

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