Philea lander found on comet.
Sep 6, 2016 19:41:03 #
The lost Philea lander has just been located by the Rosetta mother ship using the narrow angle on-board camera. It has a resolution of 5cm/pixel, and clearly spotted the lost lander from an elevation of 2.7 km altitude. The target is only about 1 meter in size and the altitude translates to nearly 2 miles! (I'll create a new rumor that the camera was made by Canon!) See link, interesting read.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found
John
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found
John
Sep 7, 2016 06:19:20 #
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