And that’s a wrap for the Rosetta space probe.

Twelve years and one crash-landing later, history has been made.

  • Rosetta was launched in March 2004
  • The space probe travelled billions of miles over the last decade
  • It completed its mission Friday  

During the course of this project, Rosetta chased a comet, put a sister spacecraft on that cestial objects surface, and studied its chemical composition.

Once Rosetta landed, the mission controllers sent out a simple tweet in many languages: “Mission complete.”

Rosetta covered billions of miles to make it’s rendezvous with the comet.

ESA said the mission cost about $1.57 billion from the start of the project in 1996.