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Paris, FRANCE: WITH AFP STORY SPACE-EUROPE-ROSETTA Photo taken 03 December 2006 by the Osiris camera mounted on the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Rosetta of the planet Mars. A European comet-chasing spacecraft is set for a nail-biting close encounter this weekend with Mars. The billion-euro (1.3-billion-dollar) probe Rosetta will come within 250 kilometers (156 miles) of the Red Planet's surface, using Martian gravity to correct its course in one of the longest and costliest treks in the history of unmanned space exploration. The European Space Agency (ESA) probe, launched in March 2004, is designed to rendezvous with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 after a voyage of 7.1 billion kilometers (4.4 billion miles). It will send a refrigerator-sized lab, called Philae, to the comet's surface to investigate the rock's chemistry. AFP PHOTO ESA (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)
Paris, FRANCE: WITH AFP STORY SPACE-EUROPE-ROSETTA Photo taken 03 December 2006 by the Osiris camera mounted on the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Rosetta of the planet Mars. A European comet-chasing spacecraft is set for a nail-biting close encounter this weekend with Mars. The billion-euro (1.3-billion-dollar) probe Rosetta will come within 250 kilometers (156 miles) of the Red Planet's surface, using Martian gravity to correct its course in one of the longest and costliest treks in the history of unmanned space exploration. The European Space Agency (ESA) probe, launched in March 2004, is designed to rendezvous with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 after a voyage of 7.1 billion kilometers (4.4 billion miles). It will send a refrigerator-sized lab, called Philae, to the comet's surface to investigate the rock's chemistry. AFP PHOTO ESA (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)
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