Monday, November 24, 2014

Happy accident for comment probe?- Noe Perales

It flew for 10 years, crosses millions of miles of space, bounced over the surface of a comment and returned heaps of data..  and then quietly faded away..

the little spacecraft with endearing tweets to the comet-chasing mother ship Rosetta stopped transmitting when its batteries drained

Yep, we're stuck against a wall. But when you look at the original location of where we were supposed to land -- it's a beautifully flat area -- we would never have seen the images and the structures of the comet wall unless we landed where we did. We'd have been in a dust field," he told CNN.


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