Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G |
Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G |
Sep 23 2014, 12:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
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: 4623 The landing itself should occur around November 11th. We'll keep you informed |
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Nov 13 2014, 08:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
The CIVA-P imaging sequence was on a full automatic mode. And started 5 mn after the landing. I know well the people from Bibring's team and their eargerness to release their images to the public. We know for sure now that their cameras worked perfectly.
By 20:00 CET almost all of the data was received and the CIVA team must have been very disconcerted by their results : i.e. for example blurred images by erratic movements of Philae and/or black sky images... Otherwise, the images would have been shown. The 3 good news from CNES early morning are : - now the lander came to a rest ; - its solar panels are delivering energy ; - its telecoms are 100% operational and its signal is received sound and clear from Rosetta... They will have to rework entirely some of its science sequence, including the CIVA-P images... They were some windows available today, enabling some changes in the science sequence. They are also to search for the lander. The 2-hours bounce may have it landed closer to the "neck" of the comet while the nucleus was slowly turning behind it while it was bouncing back into space. Maybe we will discover an even better site with a more dramatic landscape showing the other lobe over its local horizon... Who knows ? So stay tuned for more info. |
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Nov 13 2014, 09:30 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 9-August 12 From: London, UK Member No.: 6521 |
By 20:00 CET almost all of the data was received and the CIVA team must have been very disconcerted by their results : i.e. for example blurred images by erratic movements of Philae and/or black sky images... Otherwise, the images would have been shown. Quick question just for my own clarification, were this images blurred and/or black purely due to Philae bouncing and moving when it was expected to be settled? |
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