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