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The unmanned Rosetta craft completed a close fly-by of the planet Mars (passed within some 250 km 150 miles) in a crucial manoeuvre on its 10-year journey to land on a distant comet.
The probe used the planet’s gravity to change course on its voyage to the huryumov-Gerasimenko comet which it will reach in 2014 out near Jupiter.
When Rosetta gets there it will send a lander to its surface to study the chemistry. Source
