This will be the first ever attempt a landing on a comet – Polish Radio

Rosetta mission launched 10 years ago. Supervises its European Space Agency (ESA).
If all goes according to plan, the landing maneuver will start on Wednesday, November 12, in the chair. 9.35 Polish time releasing the lander probe. Then the distance from the Rosetta comet and properly set, to liaise with Philae. After about seven hours to reach Earth should confirm the landing.
– Philae lander, which settles on the surface of the comet, will be attached to it and will work as long as it is enough electricity from solar panels. Over the next few months on a comet will be going on a very interesting thing, because it is slowly coming to the sun and becomes active. Already Rosetta ejections observed gas streams from the comet, which we then see as beautiful tail extending in the sky – Charles Wojcicki said the Copernicus Science Centre.
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will be the first such attempt in history. As stated by Charles Wojcicki, has so far failed to put on the surface of the comet and the test equipment to conduct research there. – Scientists waiting for a new challenge so landing on an object in the solar system, which have not tried to land – he stressed. His department
Rosetta mission are also Poles. Together with the lander on the comet’s surface, there will also be MUPUS instrument developed by scientists from the Space Research Centre. After landing on a comet pockets in the surface and will include the investigated temperature. The movie popularizing knowledge of the Rosetta mission, on behalf of ESA, completed Tomek Baginski, director of animated films, including the Oscar-nominated “Cathedral”. Rosetta probe
his mission began in 2004. Then fired it into space. With hibernation wybudzono it in January 2014, after 957 days on the road in the direction of the comet. From that moment already done a lot of tasks. How informed the ESA, the two first images of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko poll done in March. In mid-October photographed a group of rocks on the surface of the comet, and the largest of them was called “Cheops”. With the probe, the researchers found, too, that the comet releases water into space at a rate equal to two glasses of a second.
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