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The BBC reports that Philae, the lander of the Rosetta probe on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been located in a high-resolution image from Rosetta.
It was assumed Philae had bounced into a dark ditch on touchdown - an analysis now borne out by the latest pictures, which were acquired from a distance of 2.7km from the icy body.
[...] Rosetta had previously surveyed this location - dubbed Abydos - without success. "Candidate detections" were made but none were very convincing.
The difference today is a closer-in perspective and a change in the seasons on the comet, which means the hiding place is now better illuminated. The discovery comes just a few weeks before controllers plan to crash-land Rosetta itself on to the comet to formally end its mission.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @08:23PM
they seem to want to crash everything and build new ones.
Perhaps this is part of a new world order jobs program, since no government lately seems to be free of such conspiracy to smash their probes into heavenly bodies at great expense. That actually doesn't sound so bad when phrased that way; they even provide the pictures for free!