lajoswinkler

Philae in the circle.

I'm releasing this to the public. http://www.filedropper.com/rosettaphilaebylw You can see Rosetta and Philae in action in my Steam screenshots. http://steamcommunity.com/id/lajoswinkler/screenshots/

This was very much predictable. We saw from the very high resolution images of the site (example: near Cheops boulder) the surface was grainy at less than 1 m/px. Those are huge rocks. I just hope Philae has a long enough arm to reach anything. It really was expected.

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Aw. Should've seen that link earlier. :/ But thanks anyway.

I've made this more than 6 hours ago, but didn't had the time to land it yet.

Easy. Just F5, try it, if it fails, F9. Wow, this was a rollercoaster. Congratulations to ESA.

I'm gonna put this on a path towards Gilly. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=340678052

https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet Full article on this is here. http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/11/the-singing-comet/

When I heard of the thruster not working... Cold needle went through my chest. Damn space! Go, Philae!

This is pretty amazing work. http://ogleearth.com/2014/01/every-earth-view-from-gravity-identified-in-google-earth/

I've heard the departure speed was less than 0.2 m/s. I'm not sure about escape velocity as it's so oddly shaped.

Ideas... Maybe "a notion", though notions have more strength to them. It's not a theory, at all, not even a hypothesis.

If it bounces, it will enter a suborbital trajectory and later smack into one of the lobes of a rotating comet. Anyhow, it's gonna be interesting.

Do they tackle the artificial analogy of a baby learning about the world? Haven't seen those.

Well, finally someone made a movie that focuses on early physchological development of android robots. That alone makes me want to watch it, and with Yolandi and Ninja, even more.

Not a theory, because theories require evidence. Multiverse is a hypothesis. Plausible, although a weak one.

Read the article. Ignoring the ionizing radiation issue, which is true, our DSLRs can't capture that much shades. Confronted with the comet, they'd have trouble getting such details as OSIRIS which has one channel with all 16 bits dedicated to it. You'd have to resort to multiple exposures of the same scene (impossible with rotating comet and orbiting probe) to do a HDR process.

I can't believe this thread is still alive. What's next, redstone?

More talk on OSIRIS camera. http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/06/into-the-shadows-of-comet-67pc-g/ The camera is much better than any camera any of us has probably ever seen, so now we can conclude that our typical high end DSLRs would suck when confronted with this task.

At best, Saturn viewed from Titan it would look like a brighter region of the smog filled sky. One brighter region for Sun and one for Saturn.

Human eye on Venus would witness luminosity similar to a day on Earth with total cloud overcast. The color would be yellowish-orange, but not very saturated. The ground seems to have no color of its own, and has very low albedo, so it looks pretty much like volcanic basalt on Earth. Because of the atmosphere, it has a yellowish-orange tinge. At least that's what several Soviet probes figured out. Titan would look incredibly dark. Saturn is so far away from the Sun, and the smog in Titan's nitrogen atmosphere attenuates the light even more. The color of the environment is somewhat orange-tan, with rather high albedo surface. Certainly not as snow. Titan's methane/ethane lakes, on the other hand, are a mistery. Given the fact they've probably accumulated lots of reddish tholins, combined with the fact they're near infrared absorptive, otherwise colourless methane/ethane could be red. Granted, there's a difference between reflective and transmissive color. There is stuff that can be green when you look at its surface, and red when you look at a light source through it. So it's difficult to come up with an answer.

We already have a large thread about this. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/79190-Rosetta-Philae-and-Comet-67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Another sequel of a fantastic cartoon series.