Scientists found

"FILA found!" under this title, published today in the official blog of the mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov — Gerasimenko. Photos of "FILA" was received on 2 September, a month before the end of the mission "Rosetta" and show the location of the lander on the comet. That explains the great difficulty that arose with the establishment of communication with the apparatus after planting.

Photo was obtained by a narrow-angle camera on Rosetta from a distance of 2.7 km. up To this point the device was last seen when he touched the comet in the region of Agilkia, named after the island on the Nile, adjacent to the island of Philae. Further, the apparatus has bounced and flew for two hours, until we got to the place where it was found September 2. The exact position was unknown. Thanks to measurements obtained radiometkami, the location of the unit was identified in the area of tens of meters. A number of potential objects in the photographs of this region could not be identified due to low resolution until recently.

Only very close to the comet managed to find Philae. One pixel of the original photo is 5 inches on the surface of the comet. Body FILA has a size of about 1 meter.



S0 Sep mission "Rosetta" will enter the final stage — the camera will focus on the collision with the comet, during which scientists hope to obtain very detailed pictures of the structure of the region of Maat.


Philae on the comet's surface


in the view of the artist


Source: geektimes.ru/post/280104/