Errrmmm... OK... so now it turns out that Philae landed THREE times! The first at 15:33, after which it stayed off the ground for 113 minutes, and bo...
Doesn't look like we're going to get any more images or data today... but what a day it's been. Philae's batteries should last for 60-70 hours. If th...
Extraordinary... landed twice! Landed... bounced... rotated... landed again. Even more amazing than we first thought!!
Get another glass of wine Only in Europe... can't imagine NASA saying that!
Will ensure to give myself a good talking to tomorrow morning! Ditto... disciplinary action for certain. ;)
you all missed a great conference on data management Sorry I missed it ;) What a great day for science though. I'm happy to say that I've done preci...
Wow... first image taken seconds before landing: ... and is this the first image of the surface?:
First descent picture... stunning: 3km from the comet.
So here's what we know... Philae has landed successfully Neither the thruster nor the harpoons fired The ice screws on the lander's feet seem to h...
it could potentially rebound it off… Newton's third law... curses...
Harpoons definitely didn't fire.
Chris Lintott reporting that everyone he has spoken to believes that the ice screws are in. Very good news if true.
Science data is being received.
OK, so the thruster didn't fire. And the anchors haven't deployed either... so they can't confirm that they are secure on the comet. They may have t...
I wonder if they did have it programmed to fire and if they did Everything was automated, so, if they could fire, they would have done. I suspect we ...