Historic First Landing on a Comet: How Philae Redefined Space Exploration
Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...
DLR14 天
Ten years ago: Philae becomes first probe to land on a comet
Ten years ago, on 12 November 2014, the Philae lander made the first-ever landing on a comet in the history of space exploration ... but the time was used to learn as much as possible about the ...
EurekAlert!3 年
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (IMAGE)
The image shows comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on 2014 Nov 12, 14:41:20 UTC from a distance of approximately 3 km from the ...
Philae's extraordinary comet landing relived
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
Newsweek13 天
Rosetta-Philae Probe: How Humans Touched Down on a Comet for the First Time
The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November, 2014, after a decade spent travelling nearly 4 billion miles through space. Having left Earth in 2004 ...
Space on MSN3 个月
Scientists hail scientific legacy of comet-chasing Rosetta probe on 10th anniversary
Just a few hours after the spacecraft arrived, scientists celebrated the first close-up photos of the comet radioed home by ...
DLR6 年
Roset­ta
The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...
Business Insider India2 年
The cherished comet lander Philae has stopped responding at one of the worst possible times
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the one the lander is supposed to be exploring, takes 6.5 years to orbit the sun, which means Philae won't get another chance like this for another 6.5 years.
Space on MSN12 天
OTD In Space - November 12: Philae Spacecraft Gets Lost On Comet
On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...
Business Insider India1 年
Humans Just Got Our Closest Look At A Comet Yet - And It's Mind-Blowing
That comet? 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ... its orbit and begun preparations to deploy its tiny lander inside, named Philae. While the images Rosetta took 38 miles from the comet were pretty ...
PBS11 天
Rosetta spacecraft
The European Space Agency released the first images of Philae's bumpy landing today. Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until ...