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Lou Grant
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It's alive!

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The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth. Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November.
It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran flat. The comet has since moved nearer to the Sun and Philae has enough power to work again, says the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885

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Lou Grant wrote:
It worked for 60 hours
Rename it the Gough Lander.
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