Philae

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What Wikipedia says

Philae ( or ) is a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft until it separated to land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ten years and eight months after departing Earth.

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Image: ESA/ATG medialab, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.