An update on Philae
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Link here. No big news. The lander remains silent, and has not yet been precisely located on the surface, though they have a pretty good idea where it is. They expect to get images of it on the surface sometime before September, when Rosetta’s mission will end with its own attempted touchdown on Comet 67P/C-G.
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Link here. No big news. The lander remains silent, and has not yet been precisely located on the surface, though they have a pretty good idea where it is. They expect to get images of it on the surface sometime before September, when Rosetta’s mission will end with its own attempted touchdown on Comet 67P/C-G.
Informative lecture from Dr Matt Taylor, Project Scientist for the ESA Rosetta mission.
>current as of Feb 2015 & with lots of good images & science ‘stuff.’
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-rosetta-mission