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A doomed lander reveals one last secret: Comets are fluffy like cappuccino foam – SYFY WIRE
In 2014, a dramatic but doomed journey played out in space over 500 million kilometers from Earth. The Rosetta spacecraft had taken over a decade to reach the comet…
In 2014, a dramatic but doomed journey played out in space over 500 million kilometers from Earth.
The Rosetta spacecraft had taken over a decade to reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (usually just called 67P), and three months after it arrived after mapping the surface extensively it deployed the tiny lander called Philae.
Philae was to land on the comet’s surface and examine its surroundings, sending the data back to Rosetta and from there to Earth. But something went wrong. The harpoons…
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