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  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     OP - November 07, 2014, 07:41 PM
    All is on course for Wednesday's ambitious attempt to put a probe on the surface of a comet.

    Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is currently making a long arc around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

    Just after 06:30 GMT, the orbiter will make a sharp turn towards the ice mountain, accelerate, and then eject the Philae robot towards its target.

    Separation should occur at about 08:35 GMT. Touchdown is expected roughly seven hours later.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29937050


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vKvGE04tkg
  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     Reply #1 - November 07, 2014, 07:53 PM
    this stuff inspires me to feel awe

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  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     Reply #2 - November 07, 2014, 08:01 PM
    It'll be very cool if they can get the lander down in one piece. It's bloody tricky stuff, sort of like trying to fly a remote control plane at night and with a 30 minute delay on inputs.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     Reply #3 - November 12, 2014, 03:46 PM
    https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet

    The sound of the comet!

    So cool!

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    Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     Reply #4 - November 12, 2014, 03:52 PM
    Sounds freaky!  Greetings
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  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     Reply #5 - November 12, 2014, 04:44 PM
    Quote from: Lilyesque on November 12, 2014, 03:46 PM
    https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet

    The sound of the comet!

    So cool!



    Wow  dance
  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     Reply #6 - November 12, 2014, 04:44 PM
    Probe makes historic comet landing

    European robot probe Philae has made the first, historic landing on a comet, after descending from its mothership.

    The lander touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at about 1605 GMT.

    There were cheers and hugs at the control room in Darmstadt, Germany, after the signal was confirmed.

    It was designed to shine a light on some of the mysteries of these icy relics from the formation of the Solar System.

    The landing caps a 6.4 billion-kilometre journey that was begun a decade ago.

    "This is a big step for human civilisation," said Jean-Jacques Dordain, the director-general of the European Space Agency (Esa).

    Shortly after the touchdown was confirmed, Stephan Ulamec, the mission's lander chief, said: "Philae is talking to us... we are on the comet."

    The robot deployed harpoons to fasten itself to the 2.5-mile-wide ball of ice and dust.

    Scientists will use Philae to take pictures of the comet's landscape and to analyse its chemical composition.

    They are hoping the its surface materials will hold fresh insights into the origins of our Solar System more than 4.5 billion years ago.

    More at:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30026398
  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     Reply #7 - November 12, 2014, 04:47 PM
    Quote from: Lilyesque on November 12, 2014, 03:46 PM
    https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet

    The sound of the comet!

    So cool!



    Haha... so cool  Afro

    The comments are funny too lol
  • Rosetta probe to Touchdown on Wednesday
     Reply #8 - November 12, 2014, 08:13 PM
    Some of those comments were cracking me up. "Where's Bill Haley?" etc. grin12

    Anyway cool that the landing went well. Will be interesting to see what they can find.
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