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Watch Live footage of Landing on a Comet 317 Million Miles From the Earth.

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This is 10 years in the making...

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Landing on a Comet, 317 Million Miles From the Earth

 

 

10 years ago on March 2nd 2004, European Space Agency ESA designed & launched the space craft called Philae..

 

Philae's design & missions sole purpose was to travel  to the far edge of the space and meet with Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko , the shuttle has a small lander that will make contact with the asteroid in a soft landing manner , Not like the impact mission carried out like previous space mission

 

After being launched nearly 10 years ago, the ESA's Rosetta mission is about to reach a major milestone

 

Philae is a 100 kg (220 lb) robotic probe that will set down on the surface with landing gear and it will basically "harpoon itself to the surface" when it lands it will send back images first hand then it'll drill down into the comet (although this one is not directed by Micheal bay)

 

 

 

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Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko

 

 

Early Wednesday morning the Rosetta spacecraft’s Philae lander will attempt to land on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko

 

 

NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live coverage from 9-11:30 a.m. EST (6-8:30 a.m. PST) of the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission’s scheduled landing of a probe on a comet on Wednesday, Nov. 12.

NASA's live commentary will include excerpts of the ESA coverage and air from 9-10 a.m. NASA will continue carrying ESA's commentary from 10-11:30 a.m. ESA’s Philae (fee-LAY)

 

 

real image: taken on September

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lander is scheduled to touch down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 10:35 a.m., A signal confirming landing is expected at approximately 11:02 a.m.

 

 

image courtesy WIKI!

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Philae is scheduled to detach from Rosetta on 12 November 2014 at 08:35 UTC, with a landing seven hours later

 

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After landing, Philae will obtain the first images ever taken from a comet's surface. It also will drill into the surface to study the composition and witness close up how a comet changes as its exposure to the sun varies. Philae can remain active on the surface for approximately two-and-a-half days. Its “mothership” is the Rosetta spacecraft that will remain in orbit around the comet through 2015. The orbiter will continue detailed studies of the comet as it approaches the sun and then moves away. NASA has three of the 16 instruments aboard the orbiter.

 

 

 

After landing, Philae will obtain the first images ever taken from a comet's surface. It also will drill into the surface to study the composition and witness close up how a comet changes as its exposure to the sun varies...

 

 

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The ESA expects the landing to take place at around 11:02AM ET tomorrow

 

Technically it's not Live since there is the delay about 40 minutes between signal since it's so fuc*ing distant from earth!

 

Watch the event live here:(verified original link)

http://www.esa.int/rosetta

 

News source with links: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/november/nasa-television-to-provide-coverage-of-european-mission-comet-landing/

 

Organized Landing Timeline:

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/07/rosetta-and-philae-landing-timeline/

 

Bonus:

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if you guys want this on the news section PM a Mod , it's technically not "tech" but science bitch!

 

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Science is fucking cool

 

It's in like 8 hours if you're not american btw

 

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What if... there's... LIFE!!!!???!?!?!?!?!?

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This is so cool. 

 

Unfortunately I bet this will be no more than a blurb in the cable news here. 

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ESA fonded this movie about the mission. It's so well made and little-finger is in it too!

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"Sorry sir, you cannot take pictures"

 

"Oh,,,"

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Watching it right now

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Does anyone know when it lands EST time?

There have been many wars that have rocked the face of Earth, Many have heard of WWI, WWII, The Cold War, The Vietnam War and the Iraq War. But there has been a war that only a handful of humans know.....AMD vs Intel. It all started in 1985 when Intel released the first 32bit processor, the Intel 386. This war has been raging on for decades and Intel and AMD are still at each others throats. Fanboys have been ruthlessly killed, motherboards have been short circuited and most gruesome of all... CPU pins have been bent. Stop this war before it is too late. #STOPTHISWAR

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Screw the comet, I just want to build that control room.

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Oh yeah my physics teacher was talking about this can't believe i forgot about this

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It's in like 8 hours if you're not american btw

 

I gotta ask...: if you're american, it's not gonna be at the same time?

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I gotta ask...: if you're american, it's not gonna be at the same time?

He wrote the landing time in Eastern time...

 

I just wanted to save people the inconvinience of looking up when that is in their own timezone.

 

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Huge congrats to the people who work at ESA for being the first ones to land on a comet.

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They did it, coolio. Congrats to all involved. Now we* can start mining them and make stupid money.

 

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Sort-of kind-of maybe. The harpoons didn't fire and they don't know whether or not the lander is still attached to the surface.

 

Randall Munroe's take on the whole thing is humorous/optimistic. http://xkcd1446.org/

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