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By NPR
February 16, 2016
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0002/2648/21616.npr.philae_resting_place.large.jpg?1476779516&1455648688 "Philae final resting place on comet")
Exactly 15 months after it completed a seemingly impossible journey to land on the surface of a comet, the Philae lander now faces "eternal hibernation," as officials at the European Space Agency say the craft doesn't get enough sunlight to power its batteries.
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