Rosetta spacecraft to awaken from its 3-year-long slumber

Two and a half years is a long time to sleep, even for a machine. That’s how long Rosetta has slumbered in its decade-long journey towards the comet where it will land. But in the dead of the night, at 2am PST tomorrow morning, Rosetta will awaken. Rosetta is many millions of miles away from Earth by now, well on its way towards the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, where it’ll land in May of this year.