Thursday, November 13, 2014

AP / Yahoo News: Space agency releases 1st picture from comet (The need to attempt seemingly impossible exploits of exploration is likely partly genetic among the being-demographically-erased European peoples.)


Space agency releases 1st picture from comet


The combination photo of different images  taken with the CIVA camera system  released by the European Space Agency ESA on Thursday Nov. 13, 2014...


BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency on Thursday published the first image taken from the surface of a comet, and said that its Philae lander is still "stable" despite a failure to latch on properly to the rocky terrain.
The lander scored a historic first Wednesday, touching down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a decade-long, 6.4 billion-kilometer (4 billion-mile) journey through space aboard its mother ship Rosetta. ...