DLR15 天
Ten years ago: Philae becomes first probe to land on a comet
For some, it feels like just yesterday; for others, it's like an entire era of comet research. Ten years ago, on 12 November 2014, the Philae lander made the first-ever landing on a comet in the ...
Rosetta-Philae Probe: How Humans Touched Down on a Comet for the First Time
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
Business Insider India2 年
The cherished comet lander Philae has stopped responding at one of the worst possible times
However, when Philae went silent late last year, scientists anticipated that as the comet approached the sun, the lander might gain new life as the sunlight striking the comet grew stronger.
Business Insider10 年
Scientists Have Incredible Hopes For What They Can Find On This Comet — But They're ...
The lander has a limited battery life ... and severely limited the amount of work it can get done on the comet. It's unclear how long Philae will last under the shadowy conditions that will ...
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, ...
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 ...
Swissinfo8 年
Comet robot Philae found intact but defunct
Visual contact has been made with a robot that landed on the comet “Chury” in 2014, just weeks before the scientific mission enters its final stage. Sightings confirmed that the Philae lander ...
TASS5 年
ESA research module Philae begins landing on Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet
Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by ... of the unusual bilobate structure the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. It took the Rosetta spacecraft more than 10 years of flight ...
CBC.ca10 年
Rosetta probe landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko scheduled
12. The aim is to drop its lander Philae at a location dubbed `Site J' on the 4-kilometre wide comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The maneuver will take about seven hours. But because the radio ...
Business Insider India4 年
This Is What A Comet Sounds Like (It Sings!)
The probe is known as the Philae lander and we gave the comet the lovely name 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It turns out, the comet speaks, or sings, as the scientists discovered. That's probably a ...
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 ...