First Comet Landing In Human History

amazing!

Is it just me or is the probe lying sideways? Oh well, close enough. :)

higer res:

  On 11/13/2014 at 2:08 PM, jasondonervan said:

he lives on

  On 11/13/2014 at 2:11 PM, triachus said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 2:08 PM, jasondonervan said:

he lives on

 

 

 

cannot unsee

  On 11/13/2014 at 1:12 PM, kloffy said:

Is it just me or is the probe lying sideways? Oh well, close enough. :)

On a body with such low gravity and high relief as this, "sideways" doesn't really mean much! It seems to have landed/docked pretty satisfactorily, so all is good!

I wanna know what type of chondrite its composition matches the closest. Cometary petrology/geochemistry = IDM

  On 11/13/2014 at 2:57 PM, Tricone RC said:

On a body with such low gravity and high relief as this, "sideways" doesn't really mean much! It seems to have landed/docked pretty satisfactorily, so all is good!

I knew somebody would point that out. Ok: It looks like the up-vector is perpendicular to the surface normal. There. Happy? ;)

Btw.: Apparently the lander may have drifted several hundred meters into space before landing again. Impressive.

most recent press conference from today: http://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding/videos/67965864

It's just a big rock in space though isn't it. Bah hubble-bug.

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:31 PM, MadameChaos said:

It's just a big rock in space though isn't it. Bah hubble-bug.

like the one we live on. For me the most interesting thing about it is that the comet is basically like a spaceship coming from much further away than anything inside our solar system. This makes it much more alien than any planet in the solar system we could go to. And it has water / ice which is also very unique and essential if you are looking for non-terrestrial life.

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:41 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:31 PM, MadameChaos said:

It's just a big rock in space though isn't it. Bah hubble-bug.

like the one we live on. For me the most interesting thing about it is that the comet is basically like a spaceship coming from much further away than anything inside our solar system. This makes it much more alien than any planet in the solar system we could go to. And it has water / ice which is also very unique and essential if you are looking for non-terrestrial life.

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:31 PM, MadameChaos said:

It's just a big rock in space though isn't it. Bah hubble-bug.

It's a giant fossilised terrier, didn't you see my extensive imaging research for ESA above?

  On 11/13/2014 at 2:13 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 2:11 PM, triachus said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 2:08 PM, jasondonervan said:

he lives on

 

 

 

 

cannot unsee

 

poignant squarepusher moment @ 5:17

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:41 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:31 PM, MadameChaos said:

It's just a big rock in space though isn't it. Bah hubble-bug.

 

like the one we live on. For me the most interesting thing about it is that the comet is basically like a spaceship coming from much further away than anything inside our solar system. This makes it much more alien than any planet in the solar system we could go to. And it has water / ice which is also very unique and essential if you are looking for non-terrestrial life.

 

It will also tell much about how our solar system evolved and if it contains water with the same isotopes as our water here, which would lend credence to the theory that the water on Earth came from comets bombarding the primordial Earth billions of years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iuPXlOenYo

Interesting to note here is that the rotational period of the comet is 12.4 hours. The 11th octave harmonic of this periodicity is approx. 21.7969 seconds, very close to the frequency of the pulses we hear in this transduced EM recording.

My frequency analysis (in octaves/notes) from Ableton is attached - you can see lots of harmonics in the octave/fifth regions.

67-P_Rosetta_mission_recording_0.5x_speed_spectrogram_notes.tiffFetching info...

Some great drama going on with this thing, will they be able to move it to charge its batteries? Would be so tragic if they couldn't move it. It's so sad when space probes die. Like when the Huygens lander sat on the surface of Titan, the orbiter moving too far away to receive signals, Huygens still functioning but forever alone :'-(

Abandoned space probes for most IDM, also most heartrending

Sorry if jazz

Amazing

  On 11/12/2014 at 11:47 PM, kaini said:

 

  On 11/12/2014 at 11:03 PM, skytree said:

Man...was just daydreaming of how much instantaneous/faster-than-light communications would revolutionize robotic space exploration...one day maybe.

 

quantum entanglement is the only possibility and that ain't looking good.

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:41 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:31 PM, MadameChaos said:

It's just a big rock in space though isn't it. Bah hubble-bug.

 

like the one we live on. For me the most interesting thing about it is that the comet is basically like a spaceship coming from much further away than anything inside our solar system. This makes it much more alien than any planet in the solar system we could go to. And it has water / ice which is also very unique and essential if you are looking for non-terrestrial life.

This. So much incredible data to potentially wade through - glad the harpoons successfully fired today!