The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has chosen five candidate landing sites on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for its Philae lander. Philae's descent to the comet's nucleus, scheduled for this November, will be the first such landing ever attempted.
FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/26aug_rosetta/
