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 ...
It's the 10-year anniversary of the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 billion-year-old comet
Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Special Issue: Philae Results Shed Light on the Nature of Comets (3 of 6) (IMAGE)
This is a definition of Philae's geometry (CAD model), lander coordinate system and leg/feet designation. Landing gear in zero position (before touchdown, the LG was rotated by 10.9±0.2 deg).
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Special Issue: Philae Results Shed Light on the Nature of Comets (6 of 6) (VIDEO)
Philae descent onto comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is shown as seen by ROLIS. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 31, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.