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A comment on Philae’s first touchdown seen by Rosetta.

Re:Philae’s first touchdown seen by Rosetta by mckoss on Sunday November 16, 2014 @01:32AM (#8613604)
It looks like you can see the lander, up in the air and casting a shadow on the surface in the 2nd image. If it is, you can get a good estimate of its horizontal velocity from the image timestamp.

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13gzxiwdkq2clyew22...

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Re:Philae’s first touchdown seen by Rosetta by pcrh on Sunday November 16, 2014 @10:14AM (#8614349)
That speck appears to be there in the first image as well, though not as bright...?

I wonder if Philae actually landed exactly where computed (the green square), and if so why the dark dust does not radiate from that spot, but "down-wards". Perhaps Philae hit the surface at an angle?

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