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Media event at ESOC: closest encounter between ESA's comet chaser Rosetta and Mars

ESA PR 08-2007. On Sunday 25 February, ESA's probe Rosetta, currently on a ten-year journey to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, will make its closest approach to the planet Mars, coming within 250 kilometres of its surface.

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