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With any luck we will have livestream of a comet entering Perihelion from the surface. This is potentially the space mission of the Century. More surface data
by deepnet 11y ago
With any luck we will have livestream of a comet entering Perihelion from the surface.
This is potentially the space mission of the Century.
More surface data is going to change what we know about Solar System formation.
Looks like Philae awoke earlier and has accumulated 8000 data packets for transmission to Earth, via Rosetta - fingers crossed for more surface photos later today :D
Coupled with Matt Taylor's seat of the pants trajectories through the tail and coma, solar panels buffeted by highly turbulent solar wind - this is going to be a super exciting science adventure.
Now we have located Philae, CONSERT'S volumetric map of the comet interior will find out the interior structure and hopefully resolve the contact-binary question.
That is if the tidal forces of Jupiter don't tear 67P apart.
- ginko 11y ago>This is potentially the space mission of the Century. I would really hope it isn't.
- deepnet 11y agospace mission of the Century , so far...
- Arnt 11y agoA livestream from a comet, with a 24W power budget?
- VLM 11y agoDepends on your definition of stream... http://isee3.p3s.nl/philae/ http://isee3.p3s.nl/philae/ So 40 minutes ago the main structure was at +9.17C. Not exactly high def video but still kinda cool. Please don't "hacker news effect" the poor server. But yeah, live streaming data...
- yellowapple 11y agoEither the battery's temperature sensor is malfunctioning, or Philae somehow managed to achieve temperatures far below absolute zero. :)
- deepnet 11y agoThe maximum transmission window has been 84 seconds from Philae to Rosetta. Only the Rosetta sensors are 'live' - contact with Philae is still intermittent - they don't know where it is and the German team with the Hi-Res camera is refusing to release the photos of the surface that could potentially reveal Philae's location. http://isee3.p3s.nl/philae/ http://isee3.p3s.nl/philae/ From the file cache it is observed that Philae woke up 3 days ago but they may were looking in the wrong place and missed it. Radio telemetry could locate it but aligning Rosetta's antennae and flight path with the mouth of the crevasse or cave where Philae is wedged has only resulted in a few intermittent transmission mostly only 10s of second long so not enough to download anything or issue new orders. When enough glimpses have been received triangularion may be possible - but the CONSERT radio signal is designed to penetrate 67P. Precise location triangulation proved impossible in the days CONSERT was operational before Philae's hibernation. Full resumption of Philae is not assured at this stage. 67P grows ever more volatile as Perihelion fast approaches.