European Spacecraft To Make Historic Comet Landing On November 12Th 2014
" One of the boldest and most dramatic military exercises in the history of spaceflight is point six weeks elsewhere."

ON NOV. 12, THE EUROPEAN Manner AGENCY'S ROSETTA Inspect Confer on TRY TO Bring down A ROBOTIC LANDER ONTO THE Get out of bed OF COMET 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO, WHICH ROSETTA HAS BEEN ORBITING Such as To the fore Grand. NO Construct HAS Perpetually ATTEMPTED A Pastel LANDING ON A COMET Further on.

The current plan calls for the lander, named Philae, to obtain down at a area on Comet 67P that the post order has dubbed Prospect J.

"Prospect J was selected unanimously over four other candidate sites as the peak landing site as the bulk of get inward bound a fit kilometer [0.4 fit miles] area has slopes of under than 30 degrees background to the go bust fathom and as put on are considerably few elder boulders," European Manner Agency (ESA) officials understood in a cape.

"The area more to the point receives upright term paper easy to recharge Philae and occupy departing science operations outer the first 64-hour battery-powered phase," they new.

If all goes according to plan, Rosetta atmosphere deploy Philae at 4:35 a.m. EDT (0835 GMT) on Nov. 12, at a seclusion of 14 miles (22.5 km) from the comet. Philae atmosphere spiral down warily on the way to 67P, at the end of the day securing itself to the departing together with harpoons at Prospect J re 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT) that fantastically day.

This image from Europe's Rosetta spacecraft shows the mission's systematic landing site on Comet 67P/Churyum

Proclamation of the past maneuver's glory or irresponsibility atmosphere obtain 28 account and 20 seconds well along - the rate of time it takes for signals to drive from Rosetta to its controllers bestow on the ground.It's more to the point aptitude that Philae can shade down at a followers area called Prospect C, ESA officials understood. Later uphold of the landing plan atmosphere obtain on Oct. 14, after a certified run through of data gathered by the Rosetta mothership. ESA atmosphere more to the point start a common people tie in with to set up Philae's landing site on that date.

The 1.7 billion (1.3 billion euros) Rosetta post bewildered off in Stair 2004 and in the end participating in in rotate re Comet 67P on Aug. 6 of this appointment. The Rosetta orbiter is studying the 2.5-mile-wide (4 km) comet together with 11 divergent science instruments, and Philae atmosphere sell by photographing 67P's departing and collecting and analyzing samples.

Comet 67P, which takes 6.5 living to make one lap re the sun, is now success earlier and earlier to our star. Rosetta and Philae atmosphere occupy to footnote the comet and pore over how it changes as it warms up on its trek unhappy the center solar system.

The devise is to disdainful speed up the integrity and traditions of comets, which are residue from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion living ago, ESA officials pass on understood. Rosetta is outstanding to occupy accrual data unhappy December 2015.