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Home to extraterrestrials? Philae probe could be sitting on comet filled with alien life

Home to extraterrestrials? Philae probe could be sitting on comet filled with alien life

Comet lander Philae may be sitting on top of alien microbial life and is incapable of doing anything about it, according to leading astronomers. The comet’s characteristics such as a black crust and icy lakes suggest life could lie beneath the surface.

The comet, named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has an organic-rich black crust, which could be due to living organisms making their way beneath its…

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Philae Lander shows many views of the comet : Rosetta Mission

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Philae Lander shows many views of the comet : Rosetta Mission

European Space Agency created great havoc in Space technology after they were able to land their probe Philae on a Comet. On 12 November 2014, ESA’s Rosetta mission soft-landed its Philae probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat...

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Philae: The Little Lander That Could

Philae: The Little Lander That Could

Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander’s three feet can be seen in the foreground. The image is a two-image mosaic. Image courtesy of ESA.

It has been almost 72 hours since the Philae Lander first touched down on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The little robot has finally run out of onboard battery power, and has…

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Space probe scores a 310-million-mile bull's-eye with comet landing

Space probe scores a 310-million-mile bull’s-eye with comet landing

Source: CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

NEW: Controllers say the probe’s anchoring harpoons failed, craft may have bounced

NASA scientist calls the comet the most “bizarre, wonderful thing I have ever seen”

The probe tweets: “Touchdown! My new address: 67P!”

Philae has 9 experiments including drill to sample the surface, onboard oven

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[enlightenedpotato]

Today is so exciting! The past couple days, I'd been really anxious to see what would happen with the Rosetta mission, and at lunch today, Zach announced that Philae had landed! Now that I'm done being excited about it landing, which was pretty scary at one point, I can be excited about all the new data it will uncover!

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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for robot probes with dreams of landing on comets! The Philae probe has landed! Wondering what it looked like? Here's a 3D rendering of the landing!

Congratulations to the ESA (European Space Agency) and congratulations to the world!

[scifi4wifi]

Rosetta Team Chooses Landing Spot On Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Site J: Philae’s primary landing site

by Nur Hussein, staff writer

On August 6, 2014, the Rosetta space probe arrivedat the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. Its mission was to study the tiny world, and to that end, it would detach a module called the Philae lander and attempt a landing on the comet itself. The probe, in orbit around the comet, has since analysed the entire comet for possible…

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