"What’s Next for the Rosetta Mission and Comet Exploration" Topic

"Somewhere dark and icy on a comet 320 million miles away, the history-making, comet-bouncing Philae spacecraft is sleeping. Its batteries are depleted and there isn't enough sunlight to recharge. But while the lander finished its primary job, collecting invaluable data on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the Rosetta mission is far from over. For many scientists, the excitement is just beginning.

Philae's landing two weeks ago was a wild one. The washing-machine sized spacecraft dropped right onto its intended landing site, but the harpoons designed to anchor it into the ground didn't fire. Without anything to latch onto the surface, the spacecraft bounced back up a kilometer into space, soaring for nearly two hours before returning to the ground. After another smaller bounce, Philae settled somewhere in the shadow of a cliff, at least 1 kilometer from where it was supposed to be.

Mission engineers are now scouring the comet for signs of the lander. They're using the OSIRIS camera onboard the Rosetta spacecraft that's orbiting the comet to look for any glint of brightness reflected by Philae, says planetary scientist Sebastien Besse, a member of the OSIRIS team. They're also using data from the CONSERT instruments on Rosetta and Philae, which send radio signals between the two spacecraft, to triangulate the lander's location…"
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