Rosetta & Philae

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Humans have landed a spacecraft on a foreign body traveling through the solar system at astonishing speed

Not to diminish the magnitude of the accomplishment in any way, but Mars is traveling through the solar system far faster than that comet¹.

The accomplish is novel and impressive because of a host of other factors, including but not limited to its size, gravity, terrain, rotation period, and orbit.



¹at the time of landing