Comet Landing

[PandaPancake]

 

London (CNN) -- Rosetta mission controllers have made the first call to "Go" for an attempted landing on Comet 67P, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced in a webcast Tuesday.

 

If it succeeds it will be the first time a spacecraft has landed on a comet.

 

Scientists say there are still a few more key decisions to take in the coming hours before a planned separation of the landing craft Philae from the mother ship Rosetta on Wednesday.

 

 

 

The Panthers may suck but that doesn't mean we can't land on a comet.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/11/world/comet-landing-countdown/index.html

[jasonluckydog]

already been done

 

 

[Paa Langfart]

Believe that was an asteroid

[Mr. Scot]

Believe that was an asteroid

 

My dad had those.

 

[Toundra]

I am on the ESA website right now, 8 minutes to go !

[Guest]

It made it!! On the surface and transmitting data.. this absolutely blows my mind that this was able to be pulled off. 

[Darth Biscuit]

It made it!! On the surface and transmitting data.. this absolutely blows my mind that this was able to be pulled off. 

 

 

When do we get pics of the comet aliens?

 

 

Just kidding (not really), that's pretty damned awesome.

[Guest]

When do we get pics of the comet aliens?

 

 

Just kidding (not really), that's pretty damned awesome.

 

My faith in humanity has been restored.  For a few minutes anyway...

[Darth Biscuit]

My faith in humanity has been restored.  For a few minutes anyway...

 

I'm glad I didn't work on that project... holy poo at having to wait 10 years to see if it worked or not.

[pstall]

This is pretty amazing. Meanwhile some can't even parallel park...

[Darth Biscuit]

It has a twitter feed...

 

 

https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/532579871202238464

 

 

Apparently they're not sure if it's anchored to the comet or not.

[Guest]

Hopefully they can fire the harpoons again.  This is wild and on top of all that I'm following the twitter feed of a couple of robots. 

 

This is what a comet looks like.

 

[Darth Biscuit]

Dammit catfang, I was coming to post that...

[Goondal]

This is pretty dang cool. It really is amazing what we can do these days