11-12-2014, 11:25 AM
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Matt Heverly @Matt_Heverly 4m4 minutes ago
Everyone in the @MarsCuriosity operations room today celebrating the success of @ESA_Rosetta and remembering our own celebration 2 years ago
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11-12-2014, 11:29 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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I wonder if they'll be able to drill if the harpoons aren't fired. It's got a drill to drill to various depths and feed 3 of the 8 experiments.
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11-12-2014, 11:32 AM
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Hey guys, this is a really awesome Kickstarter I backed yesterday. They need just ~$500 to get their final stretch goal which is a poster celebrating The Planetary Society. Great stuff, you should check it out. Just 2 hours left on the clock.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-poster-series
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11-12-2014, 11:33 AM
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My brain hurts so much from just trying to comprehend this.
10 years in space. 6 billion KMs traveled, and it's just now landed on a comet. Pretty incredible.
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11-12-2014, 11:33 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
I wonder if they'll be able to drill if the harpoons aren't fired. It's got a drill to drill to various depths and feed 3 of the 8 experiments.
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This is what I'm concerned about. I don't think they can, it would probably kick them off the comet. Not a whole lot of gravity up there.
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11-12-2014, 11:36 AM
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11-12-2014, 11:41 AM
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They have delayed the update until about 20 minutes from now.
http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding
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11-12-2014, 11:43 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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Nice ninja edit.
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11-12-2014, 11:45 AM
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ESA Operations @esaoperations 3m3 minutes ago
Incredible media scrum here at ESOC tonight! RT @esa: Media conference delayed until 20:00 stay tuned #cometlanding
Note, this is 12:00 (Noon) mountain time. 
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Last edited by Nehkara; 11-12-2014 at 11:48 AM.
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11-12-2014, 11:47 AM
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Quote:
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Nice ninja edit.
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Thanks! I'm fairly proud of my ninja editing skills. 
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11-12-2014, 11:58 AM
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11-12-2014, 12:05 PM
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Natalie Batalha @nbatalha 5m5 minutes ago
Matching up ROLIS descent images to pin down landing site. (via kind soul at UMSF: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s= ...)
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11-12-2014, 12:10 PM
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11-12-2014, 12:13 PM
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- Philae landed safely and in the right place.
- Radio link and power working.
- Collecting data from the spacecraft and science instruments.
- The anchoring harpoons did not fire.
- Landed but not secured.
- Do not fully understand what has happened yet. Perhaps just landed in a soft spot?
- The lander MAY have bounced. It looks like it landed, "lifted off" again, and then landed once more. "We may have landed TWICE!"
- Should know much more tomorrow.
- Philae will be out of contact for several hours until Rosetta can perform another planned maneuver.
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11-12-2014, 04:40 PM
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Philae landed THREE times but is stable on the surface now.
@Philae_ROMAP magnetic field analysis revealed 3 landings at 15:33, 17:26 and 17:33 UTC
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11-13-2014, 09:37 AM
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This is all so fricken awesome. Mind bottling for sure. 
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11-13-2014, 12:00 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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11-15-2014, 02:25 PM
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It looks like they received the last communication from the lander. Apparently it landed next to a cliff which is preventing the solar panels from working correctly.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ro...nder-1.2836387
They aren't sure if they will ever be able to receive another signal, but they are saying for sure that it won't be any time soon even if they do.
Still, a pretty amazing accomplishment to even land it. Hopefully the data it collected is useful.
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11-16-2014, 08:26 AM
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Would be a great way to find out we aren't alone for an alien to land on the comet and kick the probe over so it gets power again.
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11-16-2014, 11:04 AM
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While it's obviously amazing what they achieved. It's also really depressing that it might never communicate again 
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