Rank 46 documents Rosetta — ESA's decade-long comet rendezvous mission that became the first spacecraft to orbit a comet nucleus and deploy a lander to its surface. Launched 2 March 2004 aboard Ariane 5 from Kourou, Rosetta executed gravity-assist flybys of Earth and Mars before matching orbit with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in August 2014 — the irregular duck-shaped body whose dusty jets and twin-lobe geometry rewrote public imagination of what a comet actually looks like up close. The Philae lander touched down in November 2014, transmitting from the nucleus surface despite a bouncy landing that left it partially shaded — still a first in solar system exploration. Wallimilist renders the solar-winged orbiter beside 67P's cratered lobes and gas jets, Ariane 5 Kourou pad inset, cream archive with ROSETTA slab title, FIRST COMET ORBITER kicker, and PHILAE LANDED ON DUCK-SHAPED COMET NUCLEUS footer exactly as the master PNG dictates — ESA and Rosetta program emblems, specimen data bands, and curator copy on European comet heritage.