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The European probe Rosetta woke up Monday after a 31-month hibernation to explore a comet. Europe’s most ambitious space mission, the craft was launched in 2004 to meet up with a comet in August 2014 and carry out experiments that should reveal details on the origin of the Solar System. Previous probes were mostly flybys. If Rosetta succeeds, it would be the first to track the evolution of the comet on a daily basis. Rosetta was placed in hibernation in June 2011 because it was too far from the sun to power its solar array.
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