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Did Philae Land In That Comet Crater? One Month Later, The Search Continues
A mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken Dec. 2, 2014 with the Rosetta spacecraft. The shadowed area is a crater in which Philae is expected to be. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
Don’t forget about Philae! The comet lander made a touchdown a month ago this week on its target, marking the first time we’ve ever made a soft landing on such a body. Celebrations were quickly mixed with confusion, however, as controllers realized the spacecraft drifted quite a ways off target. In fact, we still don’t know exactly where it is.
The parent Rosetta spacecraft is working well in orbit and still transmitting images of the comet while Philae hibernates in a shady spot below. This latest image here shows a clear view of where the European Space Agency thinks the lander arrived — somewhere in the rim of that shadowy crater you see up front.
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