Philae, the first human spacecraft to land on a comet, has fallen silent after its battery power ran out.
There is some chance contact with the probe can be reestablished if its solar panels can collect enough energy. A bouncing landing left the panels ill-aligned and partially blocked from the Sun, but as the comet gets closer to the Sun, the power situation might change.
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