12 de novembro de 2014

PHILAE TouchDown on COMET #67P

PHILAE on #67P
After more than 10 years travelling through space, PHILAE the spaceship that got its name from an island on the river Nile, where it was found the obelisk which allowed to decode the Rosetta Stone, has successfully descended on the surface of Comet #67P and grabbed to the rock with 3 harpons that anchored the lander securely to the surface.
PHILAE is full equipped with the latest technology in order to get acquired measures at the surface. Existing jets and geysers will be evaluated, real surface temperatures, gravity and a highly sophisticated equipment will "read" and perform combustion and chemical analysis from the 4.5 billion years old comet composition, sending afterwards its results, through the solar and battery powered ' antennas, first to Rosetta and from there to ESA, on Earth. 



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