Rosetta space mission a huge success : Martin Barstow . Project was enormously ambitious and technically risky : Barstow . The spacecraft is still in orbit, but the lander has been successfully landed on Mars ( see http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/20130724.html ) Comment: For a start , although data has been collected from the orbiter since August , and the first images are now being received from the lander , it will take many more months and possibly years for Rosetta to realize its full scientific legacy . It's
Rosetta space mission a huge success : Martin Barstow . Project was enormously ambitious and technically risky : Barstow . The spacecraft is still in orbit, but the lander has been successfully landed on Mars ( see http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/20130724.html ) Comment: It's