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The lander's mission is:

> elemental, isotopic, molecular and mineralogical composition of the cometary material, the characterization of physical properties of the surface and subsurface material, the large-scale structure and the magnetic and plasma environment of the nucleus

Amongst other things, they'll be looking for complex organic molecules.



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