Re: APOD: Philae Lander Found on Comet 67P (2016 Sep 12)
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:39 pm
dlw wrote:
Where is Philae with respect to where it was intended to land? I know that speculation was that Philae drifted into a dark and vertical face nearby after bouncing. However the terrain shown in today's APOD seems far too rugged to have been the intended landing area.
Philae touched down close to where it was intended to land just in front of the large depression Hatmehit...
...but it bounced three times
(at 15:34 ,16:20 & 17:20) and
finally ended up on the other
side of Hatmehit at 17:31.