After hibernation, Philae back to work. A miracle of science that resumes its activities, the lander designed by ESA and in the last seven months has remained stubbornly clinging to the Comet “Chury” (67 / P Churyumov-Gerasimenko). Now, thanks to its solar panels, the robot should pick up the thread of a mission, the probe Rosetta, the result of over 20 years of work.
“We will try to repeat some of the things we made in November when it was completed the first sequence after landing,” said Matt Taylor, one of the leaders of the mission Esa. “Philae was designed to go into hibernation and remained there until now. Now we will focus on the aspects hitherto neglected, we will do more drilling for samples surface. Now begins the analysis phase in the long term we have been waiting a long time. “
The ultimate goal of the Rosetta mission is to deepen knowledge on the evolution of the solar system from its origins by analyzing the composition of primordial matter contained in like you. The instrument used for Philae to drill the comet was prgettato from Italy.
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