The lander had been seen for the last time when he was landed on Agilkia, November 12, 2014 “
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less than a month after the end of the mission, the high resolution camera of Rosetta has found the lander Philae, stuck in a dark crack on the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. for announced by the European Space Agency (Esa) reporting that the pictures were taken on September 2 by the Osiris camera narrow angle, while the orbiter passed within 2.7 km from the surface, and clearly shows the body of the lander, and two of its three feet.
“the images also provide evidence of the orientation of Philae, making clear why proved so difficult to establish communication after his landing 12 November 2014,” says Esa. “With only a month left for the Rosetta mission, we are so happy to have finally taken Philae, and able to see in this amazing level of detail,” said Cecilia Tubiana of the Osiris camera team, the first to see the images as they were downloaded from Rosetta yesterday.
Philae had been seen for the last time when he was landed on Agilkia, bouncing and flying for another two hours before ending at a site subsequently appointed Abydos, the smaller lobe of the comet . After three days, the primary battery of Philae had been exhausted and the lander went into hibernation, only to wake up again and briefly communicate with Rosetta in June and July of 2015, when the comet was closest to the Sun and was gone available energy.
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