Philae search: Zooming in on a promising candidate
Rosetta and Philae teams continue to search for the current location of the lander, piecing together clues from its unexpected flight over the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after its initial landing on 12 November.
This movie shows a zoom into a 13 December 2014 OSIRIS narrow-angle camera (NAC) image taken from a distance of about 20 km from the centre of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
A large number of bright spots are seen: as only one (at most) of them could be Philae, the majority must be associated with surface features on the comet nucleus.
The movie ends on a promising candidate located just outside the CONSERT error ellipse (marked): this candidate was not seen in 22 October 2014 images, but appears in images taken on both 12 and 13 December 2014.
Read more on the Rosetta blog:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/06/11/the-quest-to-find-philae-2/
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
The #Rosetta and #Philae teams continue to search for the current location of the lander, piecing together clues – this video zooms in on a promising location. Is this Philae?
Read more about the search for Philae in the Rosetta blog:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/06/11/the-quest-to-find-philae-2/
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
I hope you'll soon be able to image it better or from a different angle.
(And, most importantly, I hope it wakes up soon!)
It's funny because nobody bothered to test nitrocellulose in a vacuum chamber for a 1.4 billion dollar mission.
Just send Bruce Willis up to find it :-).
Shes awake shes awake
He is alive!
Congratulations Rosetta…Today, June 14th Philae has woken up from hibernation.
Philae has woken up!
ENHANCE!
Poor little guy.
photo edit and you see it all …reptilian ship