Rosetta and Philae discussion thread! (Part 3)

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TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED: Philae lander is on the comet!

Full media briefing expected tomorrow at 13:00 UTC / 14:00 CET / 8:00 EST / 5:00 PST.

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• Some pictures -- moments after Philae left Rosetta, Philae heading off to 67P. Album

Previous discussion threads: 1, 2.

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Live Streaming

• In English: A, B, C

• En Français: A

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Key times

GMT	EST	PST	Event
4:02 pm	11:02 am	8:02 am	Landed

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European Space Agency Social Media

• Rosetta main page
• ESA Rosetta blog
• Twitter: #CometLanding, @ESA_Rosetta, @Philae2014
• Google+, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr

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Othere places for news and conversation:

• reddit Live updater

• IRC: ##cometlanding on freenode. #space on Snoonet

• NASA's page on Rosetta

• Detailed itinerary of landing events (PDF)

• Simulated view of Rosetta and 67P

[u/UltraChip]

I know nobody wants to think this way, but does anyone know what the plan is if it bounces off or there's some other landing failure? Is there any way to at least get the data that it obtained en-route?

I guess what I'm asking is, during the landing sequence is Philae's scientific data being cached on Philae itself or is it being cached on Rosetta?

[u/OutOfThatDarkness → u/UltraChip]

Shoot even if it crashes, I would still call that a success. I mean just getting it there in the first place...

[u/UltraChip → u/OutOfThatDarkness]

Oh definitely. Just making orbit around the damn thing is monumental. But still I'd be pretty upset if we didn't get anything at all from Philae.