Rosetta awakens, does great job, crashed, job done.

[Incubus]

Far more imagination-capturing is what's coming up next. New Horizon is to come out of hibernation for the final time on December 6th. That'll be it: "we"' are off to Pluto.

Roll on August 2015.

And this time, we REALLY have no idea what strange and weird things we'll find.

 

[Greenlantern101]

Oooo pretty.

 

[Greenlantern101]

FOUND IT

http://www.newscientist.com/article...&cmpid=SOC[NSNS]2015-GLOBAL-hoot#.VXnejPlViko

 

[Incubus]

You left out the bit at the beginning that says "may have".

 

[Greenlantern101]

Oh my god shooosh

 

[Greenlantern101]

IT LIVES IT LIVES

http://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-wakes

 

[Incubus]

FLIPPIN' HECK!

 

[cider_and_toast]

What's the bets the message from Philae said "Is that the time?, bloody hell, my alarm didn't go off!"

 

[Incubus]

By the sound of it its message actually was "I've been awake for quite a while why didn't you hear me, what's the matter with you lot, you bloody deaf of something?"

 

[cider_and_toast]

First new picture to be received from the Philae lander. I think this may explain a lot........

 

[Dash Racing]

Clangers!

 

[FB]

When you can come up with something original cider_and_toast do let me know

http://cliptheapex.com/threads/10-years-on-rosetta-awakens.6674/page-3

 

[cider_and_toast]

Your picture FB suggests the presence of Clangers in a virtual mock up. I believe my picture confirms they exist.

 

[Incubus]

Some news on the Rosetta front: the mission has now been extended until September 2016, and the orbiter itself will now be landed on the comet's surface at some point:

http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/56078-rosetta-mission-extended/

 

[Greenlantern101]

Chatty wee thing isn't it.

New communication with Philae – commands executed successfully

 

[Greenlantern101]

Philae has been found.
Brilliant. 2 years too late, but brilliant.

Philae found!

 

[cider_and_toast]

Looks like my parking ability.

 

[Incubus]

Looking at those pics makes you realise how unlucky the little bugger was to have ended up where it did. No wonder it couldn' t get enough solar energy to keep charging itself.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Or to look at it another way, it was a lucky bugger for coming to rest there and not bouncing completely off the rock.

 

[Titch]

Hello Philae.