Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G Options

[vikingmars]

Now, it's time to open a new section devoted to the landing of the Philae lander itself on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G.

Also to answer better the earlier post,
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=212943
and for your information, here is the quick summary (as a "pdf" file) of the events that are expected to occur during landing on the nucleus and after : it's the timeschedule on which we are working to set up our EPO event in Paris.
 Sequence_ATTERRISSAGE10_UMSF.pdf ( 263.81K ) Number of downloads: 4682

The landing itself should occur around November 11th.

We'll keep you informed

[fredk]

It's not clear these are landing error ellipses, since I couldn't see any such description in the captions of either image. The caption of the latest image just says

The circle is centred on the landing site and is approximately 500 m in diameter.

The cross marking the central landing position in the old image is pretty close (but not exactly) at the centre of the new red circle. There's no way to know if that's just plotting error or a slight adjustment in the central position.