{"id":16828,"date":"2014-11-16T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rosetta-imagery-shows-philae-at-first-landing-site\/"},"modified":"2014-11-16T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:22:16","slug":"rosetta-imagery-shows-philae-at-first-landing-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rosetta-imagery-shows-philae-at-first-landing-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta imagery shows Philae at first landing site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Images recorded by Rosetta\u2019s&nbsp;navigation camera appear to show the lander, its shadow and the dust cloud kicked up by its first touchdown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-839\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-839\" src=\"http:\/\/astronomynow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Touchdown_w_shadow.gif\" alt=\"Image: ESA\/Rosetta\/NAVCAM; pre-processed by Mikel Canania\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: ESA\/Rosetta\/NAVCAM; pre-processed by Mikel Canania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first image in the&nbsp;sequence was taken on at 15:30 GMT on 12 November, just before the lander\u2019s first touchdown; the second image was taken at 15:35 GMT, right after touchdown. The raw images were&nbsp;posted on ESA\u2019s Rosetta blog on Friday and readers of the blog&nbsp;were the first to successful locate Philae and its shadow to the right of the more obvious dust cloud. The findings of the blog readers were confirmed by&nbsp;Mikel Canania from the earth observation division of ESA\u2019s Flight Dynamics department.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-840\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-840 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/astronomynow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CAMA20141112153532snip_paint2.png\" alt=\"CAMA20141112153532snip_paint2\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dust cloud kicked up by Philae\u2019s first touchdown. The green dot is the predicted landing spot based on data recorded during the descent. ESA\/Rosetta\/NAVCAM \u2013 CC BY-SA IGO 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Philae bounced following this first touchdown and didn\u2019t touch the surface again for two hours, before bouncing another time and reaching its final landing spot. It\u2019s still not know exactly where Philae finally came to rest. Ground controllers have not heard from the lander since communications ended early Saturday morning as its battery power ran out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images recorded by Rosetta\u2019s&nbsp;navigation camera appear to show the lander, its shadow and the dust cloud kicked up by its first touchdown. Image: ESA\/Rosetta\/NAVCAM; pre-processed by Mikel Canania The first image in the&nbsp;sequence was taken on at 15:30 GMT on 12 November, just before the lander\u2019s first touchdown; the second image was taken at 15:35 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3097,3573,3609,3373],"class_list":["post-16828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-comet","tag-comet-landing","tag-philae","tag-rosetta"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}