#philae’s

What does the #Rosetta mission mean to you?
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/06/what-does-the-rosetta-mission-mean-to-you

To celebrate the success of #rosetta and to keep a long-lasting record of its impact on the world, we invite you to share your personal experiences and feelings about how the mission has influenced you. Perhaps you followed the mission via this blog, the news or other social media channels, and found a special link between the spacecraft visiting #Comet_67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and your own experience. Maybe you’ve been stimulated to create art, music, or a theatrical production, or perhaps you brought Rosetta and #Philae into your every day life at home through creative activities or games with your children. Or did you learn about the mission at school? Maybe you based a project on Rosetta and #philae’s adventures, or even made a further education or career choice inspired by the (...)

#Fun_stuff #Outreach #comet #competition #legacy #public

The sound of #Philae conducting #Science
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/12/the-sound-of-philae-conducting-science

Philae’s SESAME-CASSE ‘listened’ to the #lander’s MUPUS instrument hammer the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last November. Martin Knapmeyer from the German Aerospace Centre, DLR, tells us more. SESAME-CASSE is the Cometary Acoustic Surface Sounding Experiment located in the lander’s feet. It takes the form of three accelerometers, each of which records acceleration in three directions (one vertical and two horizontal). MUPUS comprises the Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Subsurface #science – including the MUPUS penetrator that was activated towards the end of #philae’s first science sequence on 14 November 2014. It was recognized early in the preparation of both experiments that the hammering mechanism of MUPUS, which drives a thermal probe into the comet’s surface, would (...)

#Comets #Instruments #Operations ##CometLanding #instruments #landing_day

Understanding #Philae’s #wake-up: behind the scenes with the Philae team
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/09/11/understanding-philaes-wake-up-behind-the-scenes-with-the-philae-team

Since #Rosetta’s #lander Philae first woke up from hibernation and called ‘home’ on 13 June, the teams at the Lander Control Center (LCC – DLR), the Science #Operations and Navigation Center (SONC – CNES), the Max-Planck Institute (MPS – Göttingen) and the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (Wigner Research Centre for Physics – Budapest) have been working with ESA’s #rosetta Mission Operations Centre (RMOC – ESOC) and the Rosetta Science Ground Segment (RSGS – ESAC), and in close cooperation with the Philae and Rosetta scientists, to establish regular and predictable contacts with Philae, and to resume scientific measurements. This blog post has been written by Koen Geurts, Philae technical manager, and Cinzia Fantinati, Philae operations manager (both from the LCC at DLR), and gives a (...)

#Comet_67P #Instruments #Landing ##CometLanding #instruments #trajectory

#Philae: reflections and hopes
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/03/13/philae-reflections-and-hopes

Lead #lander scientist Jean-Pierre Bibring (IAS, Orsay, France) reflects on the events surrounding comet #Landing four months ago, and shares his hopes for #philae’s reactivation. For years we dreamt of visiting a comet, to perform in situ analyses of a pristine Solar System object. For Philae, the first giant challenge was to land. We always knew that achieving our scientific goals would require us to face extreme conditions, so cold and unpredictable would be the comet environment at such distances from the Sun – nearly 450 million kilometres around #landing day. Our mission was expected to present enormous risks: the reality was even tougher. All scientific #Operations planned for the descent up to 10 hours after touchdown had been preloaded, ready to be run in an automated fashion. They (...)

#Comet_67P #Instruments ##CometLanding #instruments #landing_day #science