Philae Found

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Post by de_dave » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 1:53 PM UTC

Philae Found
esa.int

Re: Philae Found

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Post by netgusto » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:02 PM UTC

This made me smile. Nice news !

Re: Philae Found

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Post by infodroid » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:09 PM UTC

The hi-res image shows how just how unlucky a landing spot this was.

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/09/OSIRIS_narro...

Re: Philae Found

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Post by dandare » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:13 PM UTC

Nice, but why is this information so "all-important"? How is it going to advance our knowledge of ... anything?

Re: Philae Found

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Post by gokhan » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:15 PM UTC

dandare wrote: post #4

Nice, but why is this information so "all-important"? How is it going to advance our knowledge of ... anything?

Maybe next time, we try a different landing method, eh? How do you learn from your mistakes without knowing them in the first place?

Re: Philae Found

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Post by vog » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:16 PM UTC

dandare wrote: post #4

Nice, but why is this information so "all-important"? How is it going to advance our knowledge of ... anything?

You may wish to actually read the article:

> “This wonderful news means that we now have the missing ‘ground-truth’ information needed to put Philae’s three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actually is!” says Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist.

Re: Philae Found

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Post by HerpDerpLerp » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:17 PM UTC

infodroid wrote: post #3

The hi-res image shows how just how unlucky a landing spot this was. http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/09/OSIRIS_narro...

luckier than bouncing off completely :)

Shame the spears could not stick it on at the first impact.

Re: Philae Found

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Post by cvik » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:18 PM UTC

dandare wrote: post #4

Nice, but why is this information so "all-important"? How is it going to advance our knowledge of ... anything?

Philae did send data for three days (unless i miss-remember). Knowing where that data was taken helps put it into context. So quite important for the mission.

Re: Philae Found

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Post by gokhan » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:19 PM UTC

Unless other parts of the comet is more flat, that landing gear design seems clearly wrong. It included bolting itself to the surface, if I remember correctly, but it seems almost impossible to fixate three legs with almost no gravity on that surface.

Re: Philae Found

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Post by speeder » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 2:19 PM UTC

dandare wrote: post #4

Nice, but why is this information so "all-important"? How is it going to advance our knowledge of ... anything?

I am assuming you don't want to know why the whole mission is important (that should be obvious), and that instead you want to know why taking a photo of Philae is important.

It is important because Philae did made measurements and sent the data to us, but we didn't knew what the measurements measured, now we know.

It would be like throwing a ball that can tell about how much a place is wet in a random direction, and conclude that some place is 90% wet... Then, what place it was? A lake? A swamp? A beach? And then you find a picture of it in a bog, and conclude the bog was 90% wet.