Here’s the Philae lander!

12 thoughts on “Here’s the Philae lander!”

1. I swear to ceiling cat that that spot was 1 of 4 that I had picked as candidates.

   But of course, there ain’t no way anyone could have said for sure given only the image we had to go by.

   1. Agreed. It’s maybe a tenth the size of what i was looking for.

      I’ve just blown the original pic up and the definition is just not good enough to say what the blob is.

      cr

2. Nope. Didn’t guess the location. Here is a better image: http://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/_data/i/upload/2016/02/12/20160212152159-d6448e9c-xx.png

3. I thought the lander was supposed to be in a shadowed trench. It doesn’t look like it is.

   1. I suspect the image was captured before the ultimate landing. Somewhere on the way down or during one of the hops.

4. Even in the best readily available image online, it’s just a few pixels.

5. What I find amazing is that the rock structures look so much like those on Earth (or Moon), although gravity is tiny. You probably could lift the rock behind which Philae was hiding with your little finger. And you see traces on the landscape that look like desert formations formed by wind, especially the three structures above Philae, close to the top of the image.

   1. Except, if you did use your little finger to lift the rock, wouldn’t you go ka-fling into space yourself? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

   2. Yes, I was struck by how remarkably terrestrial-desert like the landscape is.

      (Though I suppose it’s a little difficult to imagine what a un-terrestrial desert might look like…)

      cr

6. That is exactly where I said it was!

7. This shot shows the approach to the surface and what looks like bouncing.

   http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/OSIRIS_spots_Philae_drifting_across_the_comet

8. Darn, wrong again!

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