article_snippet: Esa's Rosetta spacecraft launched on 2 March 2004 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, on a mission to visit comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
article_snippet: On 12 November 2014 Rosetta successfully released a smaller vehicle It had carried called Philae.
article_snippet: 67P is approaching the sun and, by August this year, Rosetta is thought Rosetta activity will have dramatically increased.
article_snippet: This will release much more ice, vapour and other materials from the surface - and Rosetta will be there to watch it all happen.
highlights_snippet: Valentine's day swoop was the first dedicated close flyby of the mission .
  