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The signal travels ~30min to earth. ESA's counter shows when it will actually happen and Randall's counter when we will get confirmation. http://blogs.esa.int/
by zween 12y ago
The signal travels ~30min to earth. ESA's counter shows when it will actually happen and Randall's counter when we will get confirmation.
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/12/rosetta-and-philae-go-for-separation/ http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/12/rosetta-and-philae-g...
- Symmetry 12y agoIt really brings special relativity home to think that the ESA's counter is only valid from the reference frames we usually use. It's only when Randall's counter reaches zero that we can unambiguously say that the probe landed in the past.