Live Rosetta comet landing

[GorG]

Live stream of the landing for those of you that are interested.
Click here (http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html)

[Tik-Tok]

I hope Ben Affleck is on-board.

[lilmira]

Don't want to close my eyes, don't want to fall asleep

but I just had lunch

[Sentry]

Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording.

https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet

I, for one, welcome our new cricket overlords.

[Feruk]

35 minutes to landing!

[16hypen3sp]

Sounds like a successful landing.

[ZenOps]

Hope they find some Unobtainium.

[revelations]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok
I hope Ben Affleck is on-board.

:rofl:

[darthVWader]

Sweet shirt on the dude at the 10 min mark of the video.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by 16hypen3sp
Sounds like a successful landing.

And bounced off and may be a 2nd landing, no confirmation til tomorrow.

[sillysod]

Originally posted by darthVWader
Sweet shirt on the dude at the 10 min mark of the video.

Guardian article on Matt Taylor (http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/02/rosetta-mission-matt-taylor-one-to-watch-comet)

http://i.imgur.com/KPC0uwD.png

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/512/mcs/media/images/78930000/jpg/_78930957_e1664bfc-5973-4101-8e53-22b7f374c4e5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sbOvDzb.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/8fmiKoJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QWtZ2tt.jpg

[D'z Nutz]

Philae lander wakes up!

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33126885


Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November.

It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran flat.

The comet has since moved nearer to the Sun and Philae has enough power to work again, says the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos.

[Ekliptix]

Very cool. It'll be an interesting few months. They said it'll get closer to sun by August, warming up before heading back out into deep space.