The Rosetta Mission. First ever Comet landing, 12th Nov

[nobody]

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Opera ... et_landing

Pretty cool imo



http://imgur.com/a/TKI3r

http://imgur.com/a/OoCRB (the dinosaur one made me laugh)

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

So are they actually doing this now?

[nobody]

It should land at tomorrow at ~16:00 your time

all streamed live

[nowaysj]

Have you heard the comet, cray-cray!

Something tells me we're about to wake up some kinda mothra/godzilla that's been chillin in space, communing with the galactic core.

Soundcloud

[nobody]

Is anyone gonna watch this? I think it'll be passed my bed time

[magma]

Trying to sneak a peek from my desk, but someone just gave me a meeting for 4pm which might scupper me... this is one of the dopest things humanity has done within my lifetime.

[magma]

Tweeting on touchdown was a nice touch.

[AxeD]

So proper photo/video material is expected in an hour or two?

This live stream was mainly speeches with funny accents. Still good though.

[nobody]

I think there will be photos very soon, didn't they say it takes 28 minutes for things to be sent back here? Or something, it's been on in the background

[AxeD]

Yeah seem here, preparing a presentation mainly.

Was kind of hoping we would see the same image as control does when it comes in.

[SignalRecon]

I thought they said the delay was 7h?

[AxeD]

The mission was started over a decade ago. They have 4g in space now.

[SignalRecon]

[nowaysj]

Haven't been following in the last 24hrs, anchor hooks failed to deploy?

[RKM]

this is sick

do you remember when they did this in the 90s, but they actually drilled into it and it saved a lot of lives

[SignalRecon]

Last I heard everything was good according to shallow web.

[dansci]

Being a nerd and all I have been following this for a while...

The lander touched down but failed to deploy the anchor. And it proceeded to bounce back into a suborbital trajectory in which it touches down on the comet every couple of hours. Oh yeah and due to the rotation of the comet, they are expecting to loose contact with the probe as it enters the radio shadow.

[jrkhnds]

according to swiss newspapers, it landed safely?

these photos would make for good cover art.

[nowaysj]

these photos would make for good cover art.

That one.

[SignalRecon]

wow proper dude! Where'd you find these? And what do we believe? Is it on or off?