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Posted on 01/10/2016 4:25:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
Researchers last got a signal from the Philae lander back in July, since then pinging it has resulted in no word from it—and i'’s all coming to a head now, says the ESA, because time is running out as the comet moves further and further away from the sun.
With just a little time left, the plan is to try some off-label uses of Philae's momentum wheel. If the problem is that the lander is simply too dusty to power on, the hope is that spinning the wheel could clear off enough to let it wake itself up one last time. Of course, another is that the lander is simply dead and nothing can revive it. The experiment is set to begin on Sunday—if it hasn't woken up by the end of the month, though, that’s likely the last we’ll hear of Philae
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Thus, another extremely costly, high-risk gamble may end in devastating failure. Jeb! feels their pain.
Jeb can fix it!
ESA claims they landed on a comet.
They bounced on a comet and they by accident got stuck inside a cliff.
To this day ESA does not know where Philea is.
I salute the scientists for trying to learn about the rules of Outer Space. There is so, so much we still do not know.
Is the universe shrinking or expanding, and if so, by what measure, changing now only or ongoing?
Agreed. That they were able to land it on a fast moving comet was very impressive.
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