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post Nov 14 2014, 05:17 AM
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I think I heard it mentioned during the press conference today, (I can't find it now), about Rosetta itself possibly landing eventually, similar to what NEAR did at the end of the main mission at Eros? Since it's not like there's anywhere else to go with the remaining delta-v left by the end of 2015, and sunlight levels and activity starting to drop after perihelion, and the low gravity makes the difference between orbiting and 'landing' trivial. The whole thing would weigh a kilo or two, right?
Obviously there's a few more pressing concerns right now, but it's something to eventually think about.
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- Explorer1   Rosetta - Post Separation Ops at Comet 67P C-G   Nov 14 2014, 05:17 AM
- - Phil Stooke   OK... http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/a....   Nov 27 2014, 01:16 AM
- - fredk   My understanding was that it was the pressure of t...   Nov 27 2014, 01:16 AM
|- - SteveM   Thanks for the comments and for Phil's good li...   Nov 27 2014, 03:52 AM
- - Gerald   Small grains should be more susceptible to solar w...   Nov 27 2014, 11:28 AM
- - SteveM   GIADA should provide interesting velocity data. Lo...   Nov 27 2014, 01:55 PM
- - neo56   NavCam mosaic of 26 November. The rotation of the ...   Nov 29 2014, 08:58 AM
- - eliBonora   1 December NAVCAM from 30.1 km   Dec 5 2014, 09:11 PM
- - ngunn   Beautiful. Thanks for sharing that. It's amazi...   Dec 5 2014, 09:28 PM
- - Dan Delany   Lovely mosaic eliBonora! The one on the ESA bl...   Dec 7 2014, 01:13 AM
|- - eliBonora   QUOTE (Dan Delany @ Dec 7 2014, 02:13 AM)...   Dec 8 2014, 04:44 PM
- - neo56   My take on NavCam mosaics from 30 November to 7 De...   Dec 10 2014, 09:42 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The latest Navcam blog shows new - or apparently n...   Dec 11 2014, 05:33 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Sure enough, here's a comparison between 24 Se...   Dec 11 2014, 07:51 PM
|- - walfy   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 11 2014, 11:51 A...   Dec 11 2014, 09:44 PM
- - Gladstoner   I would guess the pit is a low profile feature tha...   Dec 11 2014, 11:49 PM
- - Phil Stooke   I don't think the lighting is sufficiently dif...   Dec 12 2014, 12:15 AM
- - nprev   If it's all real, and it sure looks like it is...   Dec 12 2014, 12:22 AM
- - Phil Stooke   I spotted the second example, but it was the Roset...   Dec 12 2014, 12:27 AM
- - Gladstoner   If the pits did form very recently, then the smoot...   Dec 12 2014, 01:49 AM
- - jmknapp   Might the marks be the result of some fragment lan...   Dec 12 2014, 11:08 AM
- - Gerald   Non-linear brightness stretched (about quadratic) ...   Dec 12 2014, 04:34 PM
- - eliBonora   We have tried to pull out more color from the OSIR...   Dec 12 2014, 07:56 PM
- - Phil Stooke   "Might the marks be the result of some fragme...   Dec 12 2014, 08:18 PM
- - jmknapp   Request to the comet gods: puff Philae out of its ...   Dec 13 2014, 12:21 PM
|- - Explorer1   QUOTE (jmknapp @ Dec 13 2014, 04:21 AM) R...   Dec 13 2014, 05:51 PM
|- - Habukaz   QUOTE (jmknapp @ Dec 13 2014, 01:21 PM) R...   Dec 16 2014, 07:32 PM
- - wildespace   Great to finally see the comet in colour! The ...   Dec 13 2014, 01:59 PM
|- - Gerald   QUOTE (wildespace @ Dec 13 2014, 02:59 PM...   Dec 15 2014, 12:50 AM
|- - surbiton   QUOTE (wildespace @ Dec 13 2014, 01:59 PM...   Dec 15 2014, 08:46 PM
- - neo56   NavCam mosaic of 9 December:   Dec 14 2014, 09:38 PM
- - Brian Lynch   Could it also be that the neck region is occluded ...   Dec 15 2014, 09:59 PM
|- - Gerald   QUOTE (Brian Lynch @ Dec 15 2014, 10:59 P...   Dec 16 2014, 01:48 PM
- - neo56   NavCam mosaic of December 10th:   Dec 16 2014, 12:09 AM
- - Hungry4info   Focous on the surface change noted by Stooke in th...   Dec 16 2014, 06:04 AM
- - Bill Harris   My study of changes on the North Polar Plain 24 S...   Dec 16 2014, 03:00 PM
- - neo56   NavCam mosaic of December 14th:   Dec 17 2014, 08:47 PM
- - Gerald   That's a quick and very dirty try to get a 3d ...   Dec 17 2014, 11:10 PM
- - Habukaz   This cartoon might be the best rendering that we...   Dec 19 2014, 11:55 AM
- - elakdawalla   Just to be clear, though, the "dinosaur egg...   Dec 19 2014, 05:25 PM
- - Explorer1   Yep; kinda wild that those images are being guarde...   Dec 19 2014, 05:30 PM
- - elakdawalla   They said that images had been acquired in a seque...   Dec 19 2014, 05:33 PM
- - neo56   A movie has been released with NavCam mosaics take...   Dec 19 2014, 05:46 PM
- - jmknapp   In the image information file, how is "rotati...   Dec 19 2014, 09:58 PM
- - neo56   After some work of stitching, here is my animation...   Dec 30 2014, 09:30 PM
- - neo56   I'm working on a smooth version of the NavCam ...   Jan 3 2015, 06:46 PM
- - aholub   Very nice animation. Much better then ESA original...   Jan 3 2015, 08:23 PM
- - Jackbauer   First NavCam image of 2015 : http://www.esa.int/sp...   Jan 6 2015, 10:05 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Can't stop, rushing to class, but the newest i...   Jan 14 2015, 02:19 PM
- - Hungry4info   Some surface changes I've identified comparing...   Jan 14 2015, 04:31 PM
|- - flug   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jan 14 2015, 10:31 A...   Jan 15 2015, 09:36 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here are two close-ups, same features as Hungry4in...   Jan 14 2015, 06:36 PM
- - Hungry4info   The illumination angles in these images appear to ...   Jan 15 2015, 10:43 PM
- - Gerald   I think, Phil is (one of?) the most experienced ex...   Jan 15 2015, 10:47 PM
- - Jackbauer   Alléluia !! An image of OSIRIS !! ...   Jan 16 2015, 02:14 PM
|- - MahFL   Looks to me the main jet is made up of about 14 je...   Jan 16 2015, 03:49 PM
- - Jackbauer   And now the daily NAVCAM image : http://www.esa.in...   Jan 16 2015, 06:22 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Look what happens when you stretch the contrast in...   Jan 16 2015, 06:41 PM
- - elakdawalla   Cool. Is it correct to say that the jets appear to...   Jan 16 2015, 07:13 PM
- - fredk   I suspect we're not seeing the "lawn spri...   Jan 16 2015, 11:28 PM
|- - Gerald   QUOTE (fredk @ Jan 17 2015, 12:28 AM) ......   Jan 20 2015, 11:19 AM
- - Gerald   That's an annotated, brightness-stretched resi...   Jan 17 2015, 12:14 AM
- - MarsInMyLifetime   The change of direction seems rather more abrupt t...   Jan 17 2015, 12:48 AM
- - Gerald   Break-up of some hydrated state? I couldn't ru...   Jan 17 2015, 09:51 AM
- - Habukaz   ESA's director general Jean-Jacques Dordain ex...   Jan 17 2015, 11:23 AM
- - fredk   Thanks, Gerald. For a 3 km radius, we have roughl...   Jan 20 2015, 04:01 PM
- - Sherbert   I was wondering if interaction between the jets an...   Jan 20 2015, 07:14 PM
- - eliBonora   Last NavCam mosaic: 10, 12 and 16 January https:/...   Jan 22 2015, 04:58 AM
- - Habukaz   As per the scientific results thread, 14 newly rel...   Jan 22 2015, 07:59 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Habukaz @ Jan 22 2015, 01:59 PM) A...   Jan 23 2015, 01:17 AM
|- - mcgyver   QUOTE (Habukaz @ Jan 22 2015, 08:59 PM) A...   Jan 23 2015, 11:05 AM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (mcgyver @ Jan 23 2015, 03:05 AM) T...   Jan 23 2015, 09:13 PM
|- - katodomo   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 23 2015, 10:13 P...   Jan 24 2015, 08:46 AM
- - Habukaz   What the heck is this thing? (from the 8 km)   Jan 22 2015, 08:34 PM
|- - MarsInMyLifetime   If these are possibly raw images from OSIRIS, one ...   Jan 22 2015, 09:11 PM
|- - Sherbert   [quote name='Habukaz' date='Jan 22 201...   Jan 25 2015, 01:35 PM
- - elakdawalla   I've had no problems. You can see all the sam...   Jan 23 2015, 01:19 AM
- - dvandorn   Thanks! Yeah, it's been a continuing issu...   Jan 23 2015, 01:21 AM
- - TheAnt   From Nature nice images, names of the various terr...   Jan 23 2015, 01:57 AM
- - atomoid   yeah, the shadows cast by that heck thing are all ...   Jan 23 2015, 02:15 AM
|- - MarsInMyLifetime   Looking at it enlarged, I think it has all the cha...   Jan 23 2015, 02:36 AM
- - katodomo   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 23 2015, 02:17 AM) ...   Jan 23 2015, 06:17 AM
|- - 4th rock from the sun   QUOTE (katodomo @ Jan 23 2015, 06:17 AM) ...   Jan 23 2015, 09:59 AM
- - Gerald   "Geomorphological map of comet 67P", wit...   Jan 23 2015, 02:41 PM
- - Mercure   Nice overview of the info from the latest papers: ...   Jan 23 2015, 05:17 PM
- - elakdawalla   I'm having trouble locating a good global cont...   Jan 23 2015, 10:00 PM
|- - machi   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 23 2015, 11:00 P...   Jan 24 2015, 04:14 AM
- - elakdawalla   (Sorry to keep talking to myself here)...the more ...   Jan 24 2015, 12:09 AM
|- - MarsInMyLifetime   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 23 2015, 06:09 P...   Jan 24 2015, 01:31 AM
- - dvandorn   Do you think the "munging" might be one ...   Jan 24 2015, 01:38 AM
- - Explorer1   Presumably the 'pipeline' isn't the sa...   Jan 24 2015, 01:47 AM
- - Deepnet   @elakdawalla , I spent some time looking all over ...   Jan 24 2015, 02:57 AM
|- - Habukaz   QUOTE (Deepnet @ Jan 24 2015, 03:57 AM) @...   Jan 24 2015, 10:51 AM
- - elakdawalla   Ah, you found it, Machi! Thank you. The ...   Jan 24 2015, 04:29 AM
- - neo56   I finished two videos using NavCam mosaics. Frames...   Jan 24 2015, 06:14 PM
|- - bigdipper   QUOTE (neo56 @ Jan 24 2015, 01:14 PM) I f...   Jan 25 2015, 12:42 PM
|- - neo56   QUOTE (bigdipper @ Jan 25 2015, 01:42 PM)...   Jan 25 2015, 01:49 PM
|- - neo56   QUOTE (bigdipper @ Jan 25 2015, 01:42 PM)...   Jan 25 2015, 04:48 PM
- - ap0s   What are the long term plans for Rosetta's orb...   Jan 24 2015, 11:20 PM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE Do you think the "munging" might b...   Jan 25 2015, 02:34 PM
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