-- Its precise fate will never be known, because Rosetta is now switched off for good and there are no telescopes on Earth powerful enough to see it. “We won’t know, because we turn off when we touch the surface,” said Professor Mark McCaughrean, a senior science advisor at ESA. “This is space, anything can happen out there ... Rosetta and Philae were always intended to be site specific sculptures, communicating to any other life forms that come across them that we as a species are advanced enough to make art, to understand the theoretical and critical complexities of the readymade. Their scientific work is a lovely bonus inherent in their beauty as readymades for space.”
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