The Philae lander of the European Space Agency Rosetta mission took this self-portrait of the spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2014, at a distance of about 30 miles 50 kilometers from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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Credit: Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA

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