The Rosetta probe has woken up ...

[JDC]

Philae now able to work through the night.

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Well, if it's a European probe I hope it has opted out of the EU Working Time Directive rules otherwise someone's in trouble!

Literally

laughed out loud!

 

[Darwin123]

Well, my theory is that the white patches on that lump of rock are actually salt piles for the Soup Dragon's kitchen.

Or the nests of Outer Space Birds!

http://www.wired.com/2013/03/chris-keegan-space-collages/

 

[Rincewind]

Or the nests of Outer Space Birds!

http://www.wired.com/2013/03/chris-keegan-space-collages/

Now that just proves how scary space is!

 

[Darwin123]

Well, if it's a European probe I hope it has opted out of the EU Working Time Directive rules otherwise someone's in trouble!

The comet's night, not the European night!

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=10720811#post10720811

 

[pgwenthold]

The comet's night, not the European night!

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=10720811#post10720811

It should change to daylight savings time, so it can get even more!

 

[DGM]

Bump:

With all the excitement from New Horizon, it's easy to forget this project.

Philae Comet Lander Phones Home to Earth Again

http://news.yahoo.com/philae-comet-lander-phones-home-earth-again-195040752.html

 

[Pianoro]

This might also be a good opportunity to mention that, for all German speakers here, Stephan Ulamec, the Philae team lead, is the guest on the latest installment of the Raumzeit podcast. I thought it was a very interesting talk. It was however recorded before the probe awoke again.

 

[Pixel42]

Update on the status of Rosetta and Philae:

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/20/rosetta-and-philae-status-update/

No contact with Philae since July 9th.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

And, Rosetta is down.

Rosetta probe lands on comet 67P ending 12-year mission

Rosetta mission ends with touchdown on comet 67P - as it happened

Watching the special on the Science channel right now.

Such a weird shape.

 

[GlennB]

Ah, great mission, but we were being deceived all along!

http://xkcd.com/1740/

 

[slyjoe]

And, Rosetta is down.

Rosetta probe lands on comet 67P ending 12-year mission

Rosetta mission ends with touchdown on comet 67P - as it happened

Watching the special on the Science channel right now.

Such a weird shape.

Interesting use of "lands" and "touchdown" in those headlines.

 

[jonesdave116]

Interesting use of "lands" and "touchdown" in those headlines.

Yep. Matt Taylor said that as it wasn't designed to be a lander, then what it was doing was 'crashing.'

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

Slowly. They drove it into the comet at walking speed.