Less than 200 million km to go.

New Horizons is now 199944087 kilometers away from Pluto.

http://www.yaohua2000.org/cgi-bin/New%20Horizons.pl

They could try a hop first, the person who designed the landing gear says it can make the lander hop, if they have power of course. Also it could flip it onto it's back too......

New Horizons is now 212778450 kilometers away from Pluto, from yaohua website.

http://www.yaohua2000.org/cgi-bin/New%20Horizons.pl

Looks to me the main jet is made up of about 14 jets all combining together, awesome.

I think they are not considering the insertion burn as part of the cruise. Also of course you have several extra months of cruise time which has to be "manned" back on Earth, which also costs money.
Also a longer cruise time could mean more time for a failure to occur.

The SESAME team poster presentation said all three feet were touching the surface, with one leg likely touching the side of the rock or rock face they are leaning against. All 3 sensors recorded MUPUS trying to hammer it's self into the ground, and to do that they have to be touching the ground.

I am pretty sure the leg raising was not attempted as they decided to use the power needed for that to do science and they did not know fully at the time what the lander orientation was. The body was rotated.

Quick summary of the French news conference is that Philae has enough power now to keep himself alive, one leg is likely firmly anchored, and the cliff shadow could actually help him operate longer up to and maybe including closest approach to the Sun.

What a cool view, can't recall seeing one the same.

Farewell VEX .

There are well known ways of determining if rocks were laid down in running or standing water, the cross bedding.
Don't winds curve upwards when entering a depression or crater, becoming weaker at the center, leaving a mound ?

Blowing in the wind, for a couple of billion years.

Remember the crater rim would be eroded, by all the rainfall.

I thought the movie was pretty good.

New ROLIS 3d image released.

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/20...ent_image_in_3D

Possibly :

"Evidence is found that the rotation rate of 67P has significantly changed near the time of its 2009 perihelion passage, probably due to sublimation-induced torque."

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01065970

This sounds promising :

"...As the lander appears to be currently shielded by walls, the local temperature may be lower than it would have been at the chosen landing site. So if Philae wakes up, it might remain operative much longer than expected, possibly until perihelion, which is extremely exciting."

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/19/di...rill-the-comet/

Has the surface temperature of a comet been measured as it nears the Sun ?, similar to 67P's orbit ?

The gear is designed to flex, remember the impact would have been really gentle, so even if the body made impact no damage would be likely.

No, it's still flying.

ADMIN EDIT: Unnecessary quoting removed. Please be mindful of rule 3.5

The main Solar Panel lady said it takes 5 or 6 hours to warm the battery up to 0C, so right now the battery won't even be close to being warm enough to be charged up. The hope is as the comet gets closer to the Sun the amount of warming the battery needs will be less. The main reason the lander would have failed would be over heating as the comet gets closer to the Sun, but as we know it's in a shady spot.

If the panorama had been within minutes of touch down the pics would have been a lot different !

Philae is drilling, from twitter.

Oh darn it takes 5 or 6 hours of sunlight just to warm the battery up to 0C, so there is pretty much zero chance of any battery power for even transmissions. Until of course the comet heats up.