By Friday, November 14, 2014 the specialists of the European Space Agency has not established in what precise location “prikometilsya” apparatus “Fila” (Philae), who on Wednesday is not entirely successful in touch with the surface of the comet. Bounce off it twice before calm down. But around the landing site is known. It is located about a kilometer from the planned.
Experts suspect that the machine got into a sort of cave, slope, based on two of the three legs and almost covered by sunlight. Do not miss him for charging. Devoid of proper feeding of solar cells, “Fila” loses energy reserves. It is – at the end.
In the ESA does not leave hope to relocate the unit to another – more light – place. It seems to have the idea to use for this mechanism supports – try to use them to jump up again. In the meantime, experts include devices to catch investigate anything if time remains short. There are plans to try to use even drill and take samples of the comet.
All the appliances are in working condition. Like solar panels, which yesterday sinned if they broke.
pushed, by the way, and the alternative idea: enter “Fila” in hibernation and wait until the comet approaches the Sun, which nourish the unit of energy. Then “wake” it up and start full-scale investigation.
In the meantime, the forecasts are disappointing. However, remember that the events unfolding in the 500 million kilometers from Earth. And it – it’s fantastic.
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