I was watching the live feed and it always seems a little anticlimactic when you can't see the lander touchdown. If you saw it, there's a few moments of people standing around, then some big smiles, hugging, kissing (as appropriate) and hand clapping. It took quite a while before somebody from mission control said something.
I'm anxious to see the imagery.
Shepherd
6:30 pm on Nov 12, 2014 (gmt 0)
I'm anxious to see the imagery.
Me to, was trying to wait and watch on TV tonight (science channel I believe) but I couldn't escape the news. Even google has a doodle about it already!
Bravo ESA, hope they can remote fix the anchors, mind you they say its currently ok
J_RaD
3:35 pm on Nov 13, 2014 (gmt 0)
from what I read the gravity is so low the smallest touch *flea sneezing* could send it off the surface.
so as long as its sitting on the surface and it doesn't move...its fine, but don't expect it to start trying to drill into the surface like was planned.
Shepherd
4:49 pm on Nov 13, 2014 (gmt 0)
Looking at the twitter feed, seems like it took almost 2 hours to re-land after the first bounce, it's crazy that it even made it back to the comet with a bounce like that.
Based on the current speed of 67p, they traveled almost 84,000 miles during that first bounce...
lorax
1:11 am on Nov 14, 2014 (gmt 0)
News service equated the landing to someone throwing a tennis ball while in NYC that went around the world some odd dozen times and then landed in the hand of someone standing in LA. The accuracy of that journey boggles my mind.
tangor
11:31 am on Nov 14, 2014 (gmt 0)
Harpoons never fired. What is amazing is it's down! Kudos for the team that got this done. Yet I can't help feeling that it's a case of "Help! I've fallen and I might get up!" That and the report it's stuck behind a cliff, in shadow. As with all these space things we'll have to wait and see what happens.
