The lander has a limited battery life ... and severely limited the amount of work it can get done on the comet. It's unclear how long Philae will last under the shadowy conditions that will ...

“The Rosetta spacecraft, which is orbiting the comet, is equipped with OSIRIS, a wide and narrow-angle camera,” writes Wired. “The Philae lander has two imaging instruments, a set of six ...

The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...

The European Space Agency released the first images of Philae's bumpy landing today. Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until ...

The lander has a limited battery life ... and severely limiting the amount of work it can get done on the comet. It's unclear how long Philae will last under the shadowy conditions that will ...

But thrusters that were meant to push the lander, called Philae, onto the surface, and harpoons that would have anchored it to the comet failed to deploy properly. Initial data from the spacecraft ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

On Nov. 12, Rosetta will deploy that cargo - the Philae lander - on humanity's mission to make physical contact with a comet for the first time ever. The lander is scheduled to touch down on the ...

The Sky at Night team follow the unfolding drama at ESA's Rosetta HQ, 12 November 2014 ...

The Sky at Night Rosetta: A Sky at Night Special Philae lander makes history The Sky at Night team follow the unfolding drama at ESA's Rosetta HQ, 12 November 2014 ...