Rosetta at Mars

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Meanwhile, the ambitious ESA comet explorer Rosetta just swung past Mars. The ESA home page has an awesome piece of real-life science-fiction cover art taken by the camera on the comet lander, showing a piece of the spacecraft with Mars in the background. There are also some lovely full-disk images. In the case of Mars, there are already multiple spacecraft observing the planet from close orbit and a couple of rovers down on the ground, but it's nice to see this kind of overall view from a little further off.