Rosetta's approach in pictures

[chiaroscuro]

Her's a great series of photos explaining the approach of Rosetta to the comet, with some great close-ups of the comet surface:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/gallery/2014/nov/11/rosettas-mission-land-comet-pictures-philae

[el_draco]

Seriously cool. Lander going in today. Here's hoping! :thumbsup:

[icytailmark]

very exciting stuff seeing a comet up close for the first time in human history. They just confirmed seperation.

[pmrid]

A live stream is available at:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/ng-interactive/2014/nov/12/rosetta-comet-landing-live-stream-watch-live

Peter

[pluto]

Yes it has landed and is sending telemetry

[mswhin63]

I just noticed that my coverage was delayed a bit so i jumped ahead to announcment, and someone taking his shirt off :lol:

[AstroJason]

It has landed Malcolm, seemed to happen right on the expected time of 16:02GMT.

[mswhin63]

Had to rewind the feed to see the actual moment, that what I missed, nevermind it was good to see the determination on the faces then the moment of confirmation.

Now I go to bed :hi:

[glend]

Waiting for that first photo from the surface!!:welcome:

[pluto]

Yep hope it's a good one!

Little concerning that the harpoons didn't fire, hopefully the screws are holding Philae down. I think they're considering another attempt to fire the harpoons.

[glend]

A bit concerned about the annimated conversations and expressions in the operations centre. I can see some hand waving going on, but there are also some visual references to screwing motion so maybe that's what they are trying to do - use the screws to hold it down. Probably can't do much science on the surface if the hold is tenuous.

[gaa_ian]

That is awesome news that they have made it ! What great science I expect we will have coming our way from this mission !

[Nikolas]

The anchoring harpoons failed to fire so it is not actually anchored to the comet, lets hope it doesn't get shaken loose.
Also the comet aliens have issued it with a parking ticket.
Amazing achievement.

[pluto]

It now sounds like it may have bounced and landed again!
A rough calculation from one of the members on the umsf forum thread suggested a 2 hour bounce would have been from a 0.3m/s bounce reaching an altitude of 530m.

Let's hope the second landing was legs down.

Doesn't look like there will be much info released until the press conference tonght - midnight AEDST I think.

[pluto]

There seems to be conflicting reports, some say the harpoons didn't fire while others say that they did fire but were rewound all the way in. I guess this suggests the surface is REALLY soft which is also supported by the statements made at landing hinting that the legs had not 'pushed up' as much as predicted.

[Poita]

The blog is here:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/

[FlashDrive]

Amazing pictures taken by the Spacecraft on its journey.

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