Video: What's Next for the Rosetta Mission
A model of the Rosetta comet spacecraft is pictured at the Space Operations Centre of the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany Mario Vedder/AP
The spacecraft's final act.
You may remember the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission, which successfully deployed the Philae landing module on the surface of a comet in 2014. Rosetta's job is far from over, however. Soon, the Rosetta spacecraft itself will land on the surface of the comet, to record even more information, to send back to NASA and ESA labs for analysis.
"We're going to have what we are calling a controlled crash," said Mark Hofstadter, a NASA scientist participating in the mission. "We're going to go right down, right into the surface, taking photos, taking measurements."
Watch out for Rosetta's final descent in September 2016.
To learn more, check out the video below from NASA: