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Old 11-11-2014, 10:46 AM   #1
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Default ESA Rosetta's lander, Philae, successfully lands on a comet!

The Philae lander will separate from the Rosetta spacecraft tomorrow morning at just after 2 AM mountain time.

Philae will land on the comet at just after 9 AM mountain time.

Here is the Live Update page for the Rosetta mission:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Op..._comet_landing

Here are some awesome pictures:

Philae (click to massively embiggen)


Closeup image of comet's surface
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I immediately thought of Bruce Willis.
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I immediately thought of Bruce Willis.
Thankfully we don't need nukes for this one.
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I immediately thought of Full House
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I immediately thought of Full House
I immediately thought this must be a hoax like the moon landings
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Thankfully we don't need nukes for this one.
Until we find out that landing on the comet nudged it enough to collide with earth in 50 years.
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Until we find out that landing on the comet nudged it enough to collide with earth in 50 years.
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Philae detached with no issues, getting very close to the surface now.

Touchdown confirmation not expected until at least 1702 CET.
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Within ~30 minutes it should touchdown.


Picture of Rosetta from Philae

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Should be landing in the next 8 minutes or so, we won't find out for almost half an hour.
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Yup, now we wait for the signal to travel to Earth, which takes ~35 minutes.
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Agh I lost my video!
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It's landed!
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Too bad the livestream is just overview of people with no narration. No idea what triggered the celebrations. Was it deployment of thruster, harpoons, ice screws?
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Too bad the livestream is just overview of people with no narration. No idea what triggered the celebrations. Was it deployment of thruster, harpoons, ice screws?
Confirmation of signal from the surface.

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RECEIPT OF SIGNAL FROM SURFACE European Space Agency receiving signals from @Philae2014 on surface of comet #67P/CG #cometlanding
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This is so awesome.
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Another great leap forward for humanity. I can't believe this story isn't getting more buzz around the world. Humans landed a man-made object on a moving comet millions of kilometres away from us. This is some movie-like ####.
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Another great leap forward for humanity. I can't believe this story isn't getting more buzz around the world. Humans landed a man-made object on a moving comet millions of kilometres away from us. This is some movie-like ####.
I would imagine it gets more buzz here in Europe. Especially since it's happening at a much more convenient hour.
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