Rosetta arrived at the comet on 6 August 2014, and the race was immediately on to find a suitable landing site for its lander Philae. The site needed to offer a balance of safety and unique ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta ... chosen as the landing location, the Philae lander was ...
The unmanned probe Rosetta will release the 100-kilogram lander Philae ... located on the head of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. An inset showing a close up of the landing site is also ...
Philae separated from Rosetta at a speed of approximately 18 centimetres per second, descending towards the comet for about seven hours. Philae hit the targeted landing site very precisely at a speed ...
Artist's impression of Rosetta spacecraft shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov ... more discoveries, Philae, the 100 kg (220 lb) probe, bounced several times on landing before getting ...
On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be an understatement. Philae separated from an orbiter called Rosetta.
Last November, the European Space Agency made history by landing the ... ve tried to get the Rosetta satellite, which is in orbit around the comet, to communicate with Philae, but since July ...
The mission consisted of the Rosetta ... task of landing on the comet on 12 November 2014 – a feat never before accomplished – was designed and controlled. On 27 July 2016, after almost two years of ...
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 ...
A European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on ... that began when Philae dropped from the agency's Rosetta space probe as both it and the comet hurtled through space ...
Philae took seven hours to descend onto the comet once it detached from Rosetta, “sensing the environment around the comet, taking stunning imagery as the first landing site came into view ...