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11-12-2014, 05:19 PM
(Edited 11-12-2014, 05:41 PM by LONDONER.)
In a historic first, the Rosetta mission, after a ten year journey of more then 300,000,000 miles, the Philae lander has landed on a speeding comet's surface.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world/europe/
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/...ding-comet
http://www.theguardian.com/science/acros...-live-blog
Not only has it landed safely but it is already sending back information!
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Hopefully it picks up a T-Shirt while it is there.
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Don't belittle this achievment. It is described as one of the most audacious missions since man first launched something in to space. The Rosetta mission has travelled 300 million miles during ten years and the Philae lander, the size of a washing machine, has landed on a comet just 4 klms. long and travelling at 40 thousand klms. an hour. That is no mean feat.
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Incidentally, Londoner, thanks for posting this thread. We'll have to keep watch on this science.
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And why we did gov't spend so much of our tax dollars to do this???
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