“This is the first image ever acquired from a comet. We see something we built, with something nature built 4.6 billion years ago – Jean-Pierre Bibring (@IASorsay Lead Lander Scientist, 2014) #CometLandingRelived 20/

The morning after...👇 #CometLandingRelived

I have a faint recollection of being in the project room with all these large pieces of paper with the images on, mosaicked together on the table, the team studying them for clues of Philae's whereabouts... #CometLandingRelived

I love this cover of Science Magazine 😉

Join us again tomorrow for the final chapter in @esa_Rosetta and @philae2014’s extraordinary encounter with a comet…but is it really the end? #CometLandingRelived 27/

Welcome to our last day of #CometLandingRelived coverage. As DLR - English Philae Lander Manager Stephan Ulamec said: “This has been a crazy week. Keep your fingers crossed for tonight.” Will the teams locate @philae2014? Will the lander complete its science goals before its battery

These blog entries describing how #Rosetta & #Philae's mission and the #scicomm around it impacted your life long-term is the most beautiful thing I'll probably ever read 🥹 Thank you contributors, for sharing your personal stories 🥹

Welcome to our #CometLandingRelived epilogue! Part 1/2: Seven months later… Late one Saturday evening, an 85 second burst of data arrives from the surface of comet #67P. #CometLandingRelived 39/

“Philae has been a tremendous challenge and for the lander teams to have achieved the science results that they have in the unexpected and difficult circumstances is something we can all be proud of.” – Patrick Martin (European Space Agency Rosetta Mission Manager, 2016) #CometLandingRelived 41/

Part 2/2 22 months later… After a long, pain-staking search and with only a month left of the @esa_Rosetta mission, the team makes a remarkable discovery… “We are so happy to have finally imaged Philae, and to see it in such amazing detail!” – Cecilia Tubiana (OSIRIS camera

“We were beginning to think that Philae would remain lost forever. It is incredible we have captured this at the final hour.” – Patrick Martin (European Space Agency Rosetta Mission Manager, 2016) #CometLandingRelived 43/

“This wonderful news means that we now have the missing ‘ground-truth’ information needed to put Philae’s three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actually is!” – Matt Taylor (European Space Agency Rosetta Project Scientist, 2016) #CometLandingRelived 44/

Thank you for following our #CometLandingRelived coverage! ☄️🛰️ What are your lasting impressions of #Rosetta and #Philae’s historical encounter with a comet? We’d love to hear your stories, and you can enjoy other fans’ reactions here: blogs.esa.int/10-years-since…

Mercury in motion... One of the #BepiColombo selfie-cameras captured Mercury today as the spacecraft rushed by the planet at almost 3 km per second. 🛰️💨 This time-lapse of unprocessed images was captured during 10:26-11:18 UTC today (11:26-12:18 CET), between 53700 and 48000 km

🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for the #Christmas #Mars Express image release!

❄☃ "We're dreaming of a white Christmas..." - on Mars? Step into the end of the year with this picturesque ‘winter wonderland’ scene at the south pole of Mars, captured by our Mars Express. Is it snowing where you are? 🔗esa.int/Science_Explor…

I'm getting ready for my last flyby of Mercury! One more trip and I'll be home for good 🥹

Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.

On 8 January, at 06:59 CET, Bepi, Mio and MTM got as close as 295 km to Mercury’s surface. This sixth flyby is the last time the #BepiColombo trio greet the planet together 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…