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Rosetta successfully swings-by Mars – next target: Earth
02-25-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)At 03:57 CET today, mission controllers at ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre in Germany, confirmed Rosetta's successful swingby of Mars, a key milestone in the 7.1-thousand-million km journey of this unique spacecraft to its target comet in 2014.
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