14-11-2014, 06:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-11-2014, 06:22 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:Might as well risk it. The batteries will get flat pretty soon if the panels cannot collect light then they wont be able to move anyway and will lose all their data too.
I think they will take the risk - and they have to decide and do the needed calculations [rather unplanned ones] soon. But, there is an up side too.....the comet is headed toward the sun and soon the place it is in will be bathed in more light from the sun and it is built to re-awaken when that happens......so all is not yet lost. Only due to the amazingly low gravity [compared to Earth] did the two bounces [maybe more] the craft took left it rather unscathed, if on its side. It is functioning normally even in its strange position and location - exactly the kind of location they spent weeks trying to avoid in choosing the landing site.
It is IMHO the most important space mission ever - as it is believed by many [including myself] that life itself and water which brings life here on Earth all came from comets - and Philae is built to test for life's precursors and water, among other things. The comet is a snapshot of what our area of the universe was like about 5 Billion years ago...long before the evil among some of the species that came along on our little blue dot in space started to mess things up in a grand way.
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: ::prison:: ::face.palm::Original landing site in photo [taken from 40 m!].....compare that with second image of real photo with craft drawn in by computer of where it is now.
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