1446: "Landing"
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Re: 1446: "Landing"
So any day now, Philae could awaken. 
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Re: 1446: "Landing"
It's probaly going to press snooze a few times.
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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150429.html
Still no Philae sighting, but I think the white spot on the dark-side could be a space whale.
Still no Philae sighting, but I think the white spot on the dark-side could be a space whale.
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What's happening to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko? As the 3-km wide comet moves closer to the Sun, heat causes the nucleus to expel gas and dust. The Rosetta spacecraft arrived at the comet's craggily double nucleus last July and now is co-orbiting the Sun with the giant dark iceberg. Recent analysis of data beamed back to Earth from the robotic Rosetta spacecraft has shown that water being expelled by 67P has a significant difference with water on Earth, indicating that Earth's water could not have originated from ancient collisions with comets like 67P. Additionally, neither Rosetta nor its Philae lander detected a magnetic field around the comet nucleus, indicating that magnetism might have been unimportant in the evolution of the early Solar System. Comet 67P, shown in a crescent phase in false color, should increase its evaporation rate as it nears its closest approach to the Sun in 2015 August, when it reaches a Sun distance just a bit further out than the Earth.
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HES wrote:Hurrah! Philae comet lander wakes up
I felt so cheerful when I heard this on the news!
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AwakenONG...
ETA: looks like something is m*starded up with the dithering: the status report, for instance, is much more pixelated than it used to be. (If this is fixed by the time you see it, this is what it looked like originally.)
ETA2: it's fixed.
ETA: looks like something is m*starded up with the dithering: the status report, for instance, is much more pixelated than it used to be. (If this is fixed by the time you see it, this is what it looked like originally.)
ETA2: it's fixed.
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Yaaaaaaaaaay!
We still haven't successfully harpooned a comet, but yay! We get the science anyway!
We still haven't successfully harpooned a comet, but yay! We get the science anyway!
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I AM SOOOOOOOO HAPPY!!!
PHILAE IS AWAKE
PHILAE IS AWAKE
<3
Wait is my icon still sleepy Philae? I must update that, then!
STILL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I AM SO FUCKING HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!
PHILAE IS AWAKE
PHILAE IS AWAKE
<3
Wait is my icon still sleepy Philae? I must update that, then!
STILL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I AM SO FUCKING HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have to admit, I teared up a little bit when I read the BBC article. Then I went straight here. I really hope Randall keeps providing the occasional update for this comic.
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eidako wrote:THE ARCHIVE POST
Someone on Reddit made a viewer: http://xkcd1446.orgSpoiler:Enough real-time updates, I'll leave my browser open and update later from my history.
Nevermind, just use the link at the top or follow the images in this thread.
Comic updates every five minutes. Image url is in the format r_hh-mm-ss_hash.png. Hash is probably to prevent people from viewing future frames.
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an update, an update!
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Headline: Finally: Philae is awake ... again.
1st p: First check what's new on Twitter.
2nd p: &%#*, battery already discharged.
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mscha wrote:AwakenONG...
ETA: looks like something is m*starded up with the dithering: the status report, for instance, is much more pixelated than it used to be. (If this is fixed by the time you see it, this is what it looked like originally.)
ETA2: it's fixed.
Weird, I can't see the image when I look on xkcd.com but it is visible when I click on to xkcd1446.org.
Oh also YAY!!!
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Woo! Nice jet!
Of what? ;-D
Of what? ;-D
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They found Philae!!!! http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_S ... ilae_found.
EDIT: to get the image. (Original post was from my phone from a tweet while I was at the State Fair)
EDIT: to get the image. (Original post was from my phone from a tweet while I was at the State Fair)
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Keyman wrote:They found Philae!!!! http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_S ... ilae_found.
That explains why it's power went out so fast...
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Keyman wrote:They found Philae!!!! http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_S ... ilae_found.
the ESA article wrote:The images also provide proof of Philae’s orientation
This made me snigger. Am I bad person?
xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
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Yes.
Anyway, I hope that Rosetta's landing is more as planned than Philae's. Though it'll be something of a disappointment anyway; they can't even *try* to harpoon it this time...
Anyway, I hope that Rosetta's landing is more as planned than Philae's. Though it'll be something of a disappointment anyway; they can't even *try* to harpoon it this time...
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For those who like Philae plushies and stuff there is a shop selling the stuff.
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Rosetta has landed - but Landing has not been updated. I wonder if Randall will add a final closing frame for this?
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Yeah, he really should. Wonder if he just forgot.taixzo wrote:Rosetta has landed - but Landing has not been updated. I wonder if Randall will add a final closing frame for this?
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Philae science results: Comet 67P is crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside
That summary article has a link to 'full' paper published in Icarus.
Emily Lakdawalla wrote:What is the surface of a comet like? That's one of the main questions that motivated Philae's mission to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. That question now has an answer, at least for the spot immediately below Philae: there is a rigid crust about 10 to 50 centimeters thick, below which the comet is much more fluffy. The rigid crust is a mixture of ice and regolith, just barely held together by ice grains sticking to each other. There may possibly be a thinner, stronger crust just a centimeter thick that frustrated the penetration of Philae's instruments into the comet.
That summary article has a link to 'full' paper published in Icarus.
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