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This handout file artist impression released on November 12, 2014 by the ESA/ATG medialab shows the European probe Philae separating from its mother ship Rosetta and descending to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Ground controllers bid a final farewell on July 27, 2016 to robot lab Philae, cutting communications after a year-long silence with the tiny probe hurtling through space on the surface of a comet. The decision to cut the link was taken to save energy on mothership Rosetta, orbiting around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, for the final weeks of its own historic mission. (Photo by AFP Photo/European Sapce Agency)
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