Philae lander found

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This composite photo shows the lost Philae lander (bottom right), found wedged in a "dark crack" on the side of comet 67P. Photograph: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/PA

In images taken just three days ago by a camera on board the Rosetta space probe, the lander can be seen nestled in a dark crack on the comet's surface, with two of its three legs sticking out.

"For many people it is a huge emotional closure, but for the scientists it is incredibly important because it now tells us where the measurements were taken that we made with Philae back in 2014 - that context is everything," said Mark McCaughrean, senior scientific advisor at the European Space Agency (ESA).

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/05/lost-philae-lander-found-as-rosetta-mission-draws-to-a-close-comet-67p

So the aliens didn't get it then.

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Lander ? , I think they've overdone it with the zoom and are dancing on the edge of pixilation. more likely a Rock than anything else , those highlights on the rock seem to be giving the impression of angularity's .. but you know.., tricks of light etc

try again nasa , it must be there somewhere

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[Pimander]

Pixels?  Naaaah!

Look at the detail in the nearby rock.  The detail looks like the lander too.  It's either a fabricated picture or it's the lander. 

ETA:  It's ESA not NASA so there are competent people working on it.

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Pixels?  Naaaah!

Look at the detail in the nearby rock.  The detail looks like the lander too.  It's either a fabricated picture or it's the lander. 

ETA:  It's ESA not NASA so there are competent people working on it.

nonsense. .. to much zoom used, once a picture starts breaking down after zoom is used , sometimes not even the rocks are identifiable. as clearly the case here.

nasa esa assa ..once you strt zooming , these alphabet agencys , all look like the same soup..

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brilliant funbox!

[zorgon]

brilliant funbox!

You two are idgits

[zorgon]

Rosetta's Lander Philae Wakes From Comet Nap


The European Space Agency's Rosetta's lander "Philae" awoke from its cometary hibernation on June 13.
Credits: ESA

The European Space Agency's Rosetta's lander (Philae) is out of hibernation. The signals were received at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany at 22:28 local time (CEST) on June 13. Since then, more than 300 data packets have been analyzed by the teams at the Lander Control Center at the German Aerospace Center.

"Philae is doing very well: It has an operating temperature of minus 35 degrees centigrade and has 24 watts available," said the German Aerospace Center's Philae Project Manager Stephan Ulamec. "The lander is ready for operations."

For 85 seconds Philae "spoke" with its team on the ground, via Rosetta, in the first contact since going into hibernation in November 2014.

When analyzing the status data, it became clear that Philae also must have been awake earlier. "We have also received historical data -- so far, however, the lander had not been able to contact us earlier," Ulamec said.

Now the scientists are waiting for the next contact.  There are still more than 8,000 data packets in Philae's mass memory, which will give the German Aerospace Center (DLR) team information on what happened to the lander in the past few days on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Philae shut down on November 15, 2014, at 1:15 CET, after being in operation on the comet for about 60 hours. Since March 12, 2015, the communication unit on the Rosetta orbiter was turned on to listen out for the lander.

Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by the German Aerospace Center in Cologne; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen; French National Space Agency in Paris; and the Italian Space Agency in Rome.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the U.S. contributions to the Rosetta mission for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL also built the MIRO instrument and hosts its principal investigator, Samuel Gulkis. The Southwest Research Institute, located in San Antonio and Boulder, developed Rosetta's IES and Alice instruments and hosts their principal investigators, James Burch (IES) and Alan Stern (Alice).

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/rosetta-lander-philae-wakes-from-comet-nap

[zorgon]

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=8367.msg115172#msg115172

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You two are idgits

don't you mean eejit's ?

ive heard the zoom argument so many times, ide just thought a nice test drive would do, see how it feels in the other chair...

*funbox begins to inflate , power and electricity fills his visually, mutated and tortured body, strength and absolute unjustified certainty , fill every molecular fibre of his being *

nah not for me

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but seriously though, I've seen disembodied heads on mars look more like disembodied heads, than this looks like a robot

*a few shadow removal techniques later*



or did they send something from Robot wars up/down there?

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and that supposed to be one of the legs jutting out?

, I cant imagine them designing it to be human shaped ? is that a foot and toes too ?

its not Asimov is disguise is it ?

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[Pimander]

ive heard the zoom argument so many times, ide just thought a nice test drive would do, see how it feels in the other chair...

Show me some anomalies that detailed.  How about a crocodile head on Mars that we can be that sure of?

We need Mike Singh back!

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Show me some anomalies that detailed.  How about a crocodile head on Mars that we can be that sure of?

We need Mike Singh back!

wrong person to play this game







hmm , how is it ive managed to link these from Ats ? .. curious

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[Pimander]

but seriously though,

Seriously?  It looks like the lander to me.

The image link is

ArMaP, is that where ATS images are stored now?

ETA:  Oh, those.  I can't see the images in the last post.

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testing again ..



weird

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