Knights Reborn

So ESA landed a probe onto a comet yesterday. Here are some facts if you don't want to read the article I provided below:

• -ESA stands for European Space Agency
• -Probe's name was "Philae", it was ejected from the mothership, "Rosetta", named after the Rosetta Stone.
• -Comet's name was 67P, around 310 million miles from Earth.
• -First probe to rendezvous with a comet's orbit and first anything to actually LAND on a comet.
• -Philae was launched 10 years ago, and traveled 6.4 billion miles.
• -67P has a very low gravity and is only 2.5 miles in diameter.
• -Philae will measure various things like thermal conditions as well as density from the comet's surface.

Here's the source if you want to read the full thing, very interesting:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/com ... index.html

For those of you who aren't in to this kind of thing, this is a very exciting event for space exploration. Love this

I'm very interested to see what they actually find

Aventador wrote:I'm very interested to see what they actually find

rocks.

Falcon wrote:For those of you who aren't in to this kind of thing, this is a very exciting event for space exploration. Love this

Im ready to go conquer a comet/planet, whos coming with?

All the conspiracy nuts are saying that the comet is actually an alien spaceship that Rosetta/Philae went to investigate.

Bah, everyone knows the comet is man-made and the landing shuttle is alien, and we finally caught it!

This is pretty cool stuff
The images are pretty cool too

Jawfin wrote:Bah, everyone knows the comet is man-made and the landing shuttle is alien, and we finally caught it!

Your not cleared to reveal this information >:-(

I think it's sorta hilarious that the mission was partially derailed because they accidentally landed in the shade

I knew about this mission, what I didn't know is that it took 10 years to be acomplished 0.0

Jato wrote:

Falcon wrote:For those of you who aren't in to this kind of thing, this is a very exciting event for space exploration. Love this

Im ready to go conquer a comet/planet, whos coming with?

Me!!