Primary and back up landing sites for Roseatta's Philae probe selected

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The Rosetta mission's Landing Site Selection Group has selected the primary and back up landing sites for the ESA's Philae probe ahead of an attempted touchdown on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on November 11. Selecting sites J and C as the primary and back up sites respectively was no easy task, with mission operators weighing up various factors and racing against time since the spacecraft entered orbit around the comet on August 6. Prior to this, the comet had simply been too far away to characterize. .. Continue Reading Primary and back up landing sites for Roseatta's Philae probe selected

Section: Space

Tags: Comets, ESA, Philae, Rosetta, Spacecraft, Unmanned

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