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ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make history by dropping a probe onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko


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  • Location: Near Beverley, East Yorks. (5 metres a.s.l.)
  • Weather Preferences: Something good in all four seasons
  • Location: Near Beverley, East Yorks. (5 metres a.s.l.)

Eeek, will she or won't she make it to the surface intact and functioning .....

Scientists looking excited but very tense .

 

B.


They're clapping !!!!!!!!!!!!!  :)

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

Brilliant stuff  :yahoo:

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  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Cool not cold, warm not hot. No strong Wind.
  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire

Excellent! :clap:

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  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Cold & Snowy, Summer: Just not hot
  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire

Mind-bogglingly incredible achievement. Well done to all those involved.

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  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL
  • Location: Rotherhithe, 5.8M ASL

Certainly a historic day, it would have been nice if we got some footage of the landing. With the brains of today something like this was overdue! I find it to be fascinating. :)

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  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Cool not cold, warm not hot. No strong Wind.
  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire

Amazing, but it could still come away from the comet, as we already know the thrusters failed and now they are not sure the harpoons worked either and it may just be lodged in 4cm of surface material.

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  • Location: Ireland, probably South Tipperary
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, Snow, Windstorms and Thunderstorms
  • Location: Ireland, probably South Tipperary

A pretty cool animation of the Rosetta mission

 

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  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Cool not cold, warm not hot. No strong Wind.
  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire

True but what it has already shown and told is amazing, yes there may be a 60 odd hour timeframe to continue the tests on the comet in now but to get this far alone is great, more so considering the failures and setbacks in the last day or so.  It landed and that was the critical part after all.

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  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Cool not cold, warm not hot. No strong Wind.
  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire

Just goes to show that the media just want a soundbite or a headline and many do not understand science and its exploration, and from that what these funded expeditions show and learn us provide.

 

I read one item somewhere that the total cost of the project to europeans worked out at (euro)0.20 each. Bargain science IMHO.

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  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Cool not cold, warm not hot. No strong Wind.
  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire

 

According to physicist Andrew Steele, who has calculated the costs on his website Scienceogram, the Rosetta mission cost 3.50 euros per person from 1996-2015. This works out at 0.20 euros per person per year.

I was close to the cost anyway

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  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Cool not cold, warm not hot. No strong Wind.
  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire

News this morning is the probe has gone into "sleep" mode to save the remaining power it has.

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  • Location: South Yorkshire
  • Location: South Yorkshire

News this morning is the probe has gone into "sleep" mode to save the remaining power it has.

 

I find myself doing that an awful lot,these days - it's my age, y'know.  Hope they get this thing fixed - such a shame after all the colossal effort and time to pull off the incredible feat of getting it there.

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

The Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of its comet, scientists have confirmed.


Carbon-containing "organics" are the basis of life on Earth and may give clues to chemical ingredients delivered to our planet early in its history.


The compounds were picked up by a German-built instrument designed to "sniff" the comet's thin atmosphere.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30097648


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  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL
  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL

All quiet now .  Is that the end of this adventure  ?

Unless as it approaches the sun, it can somehow get sunlight onto the solar cells it is sadly the end of the action on the comet, I believe.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne
10 December 2014

ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has found the water vapour from its target comet to be significantly different to that found on Earth. The discovery fuels the debate on the origin of our planet’s oceans.

 

The measurements were made in the month following the spacecraft’s arrival at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 6 August. It is one of the most anticipated early results of the mission, because the origin of Earth’s water is still an open question.

 

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_fuels_debate_on_origin_of_Earth_s_oceans

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