PARIS — Europe’s Philae lander went into a likely permanent hibernation on Nov. 15, some 57 hours after first touching down on Comet 67P, but not before sending a scheduled cache of science data, relayed to Earth via Europe’s Rosetta comet-chaser spacecraft orbiting overhead, the European Space Agency said.
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