Updates Rosetta Mission News

[Urwumpe]

Rosetta is there!

 

[Quick_Nick]

"The image was taken from a distance of 120 km and the image resolution is 2.2 metres per pixel."

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Hot damn. They did it!

 

[Unstung]

There's more:

Boulders are clearly visible in this one but there appears to be some soft terrain. Source

ESA (or at least DLR) is already looking into potential landing sites for Philae:

An updated animation of entering orbit:

 

[BrianJ]

Well done ESA :thumbup:
Truly amazingly amazing!

 

[Thunder Chicken]

:woohoo:Oh yeah baby! This is fantastic! SCIENCE FTW!:woohoo:

I have a bit of faith in humankind now. For today anyway.

 

[sorindafabico]

"The image was taken from a distance of 120 km and the image resolution is 2.2 metres per pixel."

Nice place for ..."diving".

 

[RGClark]

Congrats to ESA and the entire Rosetta team.

Bob Clark

 

[RisingFury]

Nice place for ..."diving".

With the gravity as low as it is, the landing wouldn't even hurt

Try not to jump too high, though. With the escape velocity being 0.46 m/s and all

 

[Notebook]

BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28741244

N.

 

[Izack]

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/08/Comet_on_7_August_b

The smallest, low-gravity worlds have some of the grandest features, it seems.

 

[RGClark]

What's the speculation on the smooth areas?

Bob Clark

 

[llarian]

Nothing official, just my opinion, but it is probably dust and material from outgassing events that have settled back toward the centre of mass (gravity).

 

[statickid]

Then also wasn't there some preliminary observation stating that the "weld" area between the masses, which is also fairly smooth looking, was colder than the rest of the body?

 

[fsci123]

What amazes me is that fruit fly orbit. I know its due to the low gravity and low escape velocity present around the comet...but it's still a marvel. I'll applaud the first person who duplicates it in Orbiter.

 

[Urwumpe]

What amazes me is that fruit fly orbit.

The what? :rofl:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

The what? :rofl:

What, you've never watched a fruit fly flying? They'll go in a straight line for a while, then suddenly change directions before going straight for a while again.

 

[Urwumpe]

What, you've never watched a fruit fly flying? They'll go in a straight line for a while, then suddenly change directions before going straight for a while again.

No, never. :lol:

 

[llarian]

Oh God. What a description! I've hated those damned things since first year uni genetics. Counting Drosophila for characteristics for population genetics studies.

But yeah, that orbit kind of looks similar to their flight.

 

[Yoda]

What amazes me is that fruit fly orbit. I know its due to the low gravity and low escape velocity present around the comet...but it's still a marvel. I'll applaud the first person who duplicates it in Orbiter.

Hillarious !!!! :rofl: