At 8.35AM GMT the lander craft will separate from the Rosetta probe and make an historic landing on the surface of a comet. There will a delay of approximately 30 minute for telemetry broadcast. Read more at space.com and "tune in" to NASA TV for live broadcast from the ESA mission control.
[UPDATE 1]
Philae has successfully separated from the Rosetta orbiter and is on its way towards the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Both Philae and Rosetta are in contact with Earth, and the landing legs on Philae are deployed. Ars Technica
The ESA will livestream events from mission control starting at 4pm US Eastern time today (19:00 GMT)
[UPDATE 2]
There's cheering in the control room as signal has been received from Philae, indicating it is on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Someone in the control room has just said "if it would have bounced, we would have lost this," which suggests that it is remaining on the surface. Ars Technica
(Score: 4, Informative) by pixeldyne on Wednesday November 12 2014, @07:58AM
Aaccording to wikipedia the actual hook and landing will take place 7 hours after separation. Ps. Thanks for fixing the links 😊
(Score: 2) by keplr on Wednesday November 12 2014, @08:07AM
Is that functional Unicode on a Slashcode website?! And we're landing on a comet? The future truly is now.
I don't respond to ACs.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday November 12 2014, @03:39PM
Damn, I came here to moderate and wind up posting an offtopic comment, but yes, S/N has fixed its unicode. The green site is especially retarded, because there, unicode looks fine in preview but their turd machine mangles it when you submit the comment or journal.
As to the comet, this is a great time to be alive! I sure hope the mission is successful.
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(Score: 2) by pixeldyne on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:32AM
Probably, why not? I dont go to the other site. Especially because of all the name calling and so on. And look here: I've made so many typos, got initial information wrong and we can still have an intelligent discussion.
I had to submit it from my phone and was actually hoping someone would submit a better story. I literally had 2 minutes to submit as I had to get off the train.
Ps. unicode test 😎💤 😂 👽💜💛
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hannibal on Wednesday November 12 2014, @09:24AM
You can also view it from the ESA webpage as NASA seems to be showing other stuff.
http://rosetta.esa.int/ [esa.int]
(Score: 4, Informative) by zocalo on Wednesday November 12 2014, @10:05AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Lemming on Wednesday November 12 2014, @11:02AM
xkcd is following the landing live in comic form today. It updates about each 5 minutes. http://xkcd.com/1446/ [xkcd.com]
Somebody on Reddit created a viewer which allows you to navigate all currently published frames: http://xkcd1446.org/ [xkcd1446.org]
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday November 12 2014, @11:09AM
Can anyone point me to a gallery / video of some real actual genuine space imagery? Every link posted so far consists of either people lounging around in a control room that looks suspiciously like a set from Star Trek: TNG, people interviewing one another in front of polystyrene rocks that look suspiciously like props from Star Trek: TOS, or lens-flared CGI of what the landing might look like that looks suspiciously like footage from Star Trek: JJAbrams.
(Score: 3, Informative) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday November 12 2014, @11:15AM
OK, found some pics: https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/sets/72157638315605535/ [flickr.com]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 12 2014, @01:02PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Wednesday November 12 2014, @01:30PM
Is there any pop culture that could be referenced to chunks-of-ancient-greek-gods-floating-in-space [flickr.com]?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 12 2014, @04:32PM
T minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ... "Aw man, those are fake, just some old Ansel Adams pix from Yosemite"
Although seriously now, I wonder if anyone has remixed stuff like that into minecraft. Something like the "Crash Landing" pack but with mountains.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday November 12 2014, @03:38PM
Seriously folks, WHERE ARE THE FUCKING PICTURES? The only set of images that are actually updating are the xkcd stick comic, which are all "Wow! look at the pictures being sent back!"
Every other link I try is just videos of talking heads at mission control! How hard is it make a simple fucking website with a simple gallery of pictures, updated as the pictures come in?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 12 2014, @03:50PM
I wonder if the growing number of fields on the bottom of the xkcd1446.org page telling me I need a plugin to view content (without telling me what plugin, or what format it has to support, thank you Mozilla Foundation!) would actually show some pictures.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 12 2014, @05:23PM
Here try this one
http://mffanrodders.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/20120701-191549.jpg?w=640 [wordpress.com]
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday November 12 2014, @05:32PM
Awesome, thanks. I can tell it's not fake because it doesn't look like Star Trek.
(Score: 4, Informative) by sudo rm -rf on Wednesday November 12 2014, @04:10PM
Landing seems to be a success, Philae is sitting on the surface. Amazing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 12 2014, @04:19PM
Yeah, they say so. SEND PIX!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by timbim on Wednesday November 12 2014, @04:29PM
pics or GTFO
(Score: 3, Informative) by j-stroy on Wednesday November 12 2014, @04:56PM
Commentator at mission control said that harpoons had NOT fired and they were deciding if they should resend command.. And that telemetry link was intermittent, pics would be delayed by this..
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday November 12 2014, @05:21PM
harpoons had NOT fired
Sure thats a good idea? I saw that scene in star wars and without Chewie to get the probe outta there, they're pretty much screwed. Don't stick a harpoon in it, maybe the giant space worm will leave you alone.
(Score: 2) by pixeldyne on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:41AM
Did it really had to land twice? It touched down, bounced and then landed again. Harpoons didnt deploy?^1 Is all equipment still working? Luckily it sank a little, like 4cm into the surface, so msybe even without harpoons it will stay attached.
^1 - using harpoons was a strange choice, I'm told the whale population over there may rather small, perhaps extinct.
(Score: 3, Funny) by isostatic on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:49AM
But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing out whaling tune.