With media still buzzing over a "selfie" its comet-chasing Rosetta mission took days ago, Europe's main space agency will reveal next week where the probe's lander will settle on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The European Space Agency will announce Sept 15 the primary landing site for Philae, Rosetta's lander, which is scheduled to attempt in November the very first soft touch-down on a comet, according to a news release (watch the announcement LIVE here).

Since Aug. 6, when Rosetta met-up with the comet, which it's been orbiting ever since, mission scientists and engineers have been studying possible landing sites, paring down the list to five potential set-down locations later that months.

Meanwhile, moved in much closer to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, from about 100 kilometers, or a little over 62 miles, to 50 kilometers, or a little over 31 miles, in order to collect more detailed observations of the proposed landing sites.

It was from the closer vantage point that the probe tested Philae's on-board camera by taking a shot one of the probe's solar energy-collecting wings, with the odd, head-and-body shaped comet looming in the background.

The spacecraft's photo of one of solar wings -- which is 14 meters long, or approximately 46 feet -- was actually created by combining two different images with different exposures, a process that visually enhanced the details of the probe and comet, the release said.

The five candidate sites by Sept. 14 will have been assessed and ranked, leading to the introduction the following day of the primary landing site and its back-up.

Comets, explained the agency in the release, "are time capsules containing primitive material left over from the epoch when the Sun and its planets formed. By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, via both remote and in situ observations, the Rosetta mission should become the key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life."