Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Robot “Phil” sent the first images of the comet – BBC

Robot “Phil” did for the first time in the history of images of the surface of the comet nucleus. Reported by NASA .

In the open space robot is undocked from the space probe Rosetta scientific and reached the nucleus of comet 67P Churyumov – Gerasimenko. On the resulting picture shows one of the 14-meter solar array probe. The image was transmitted to Earth during a radio session.

Earlier reported , the robot “Phil” made a successful landing on the comet Churyumov – Gerasimenko. Experts of the European Space Agency (ESA) received signal from the lander. Apparatus Rosetta flew for 10 years 6 billion kilometers. On the development of the mission, planning and construction of the machine took 20 years. The work involved more than 2 thousand. Professionals.

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