Scientists and science geeks the world over got pretty excited when the space probe Rosetta’s landing craft, Philae, made contact with a comet this week.
Here is a scientist whooping it up on the BBC.
But traveling into space to land on a comet is a pretty expensive undertaking. Scienceogram came up with this fabulous graphic to explain how to think about the money spent on Rosetta.
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