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Philae's Journey - V3
This OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera shot is thought to show Phillae during her journey across 67P on 12/11/2014. I have drawn the guesstimated trajectories, with the second one in green passing through the spot that is guaged to be Phillae by the Rosetta team.
Phillae is known to have had a glancing graze with one of her feet on the Hatmehit depression rim, 46 minutes into her first bounce. The first part of this first bounce is shown in blue. The actual point of contact is not known, but two images taken early in the flight give a good indication of the direction of that first bounce which I have attempted to project to where Phillae met the cliffs of the rim.
NOTE: These are not calculated trajectories, just interpretations of the information given on the ESA Rosetta Blog. The original OSIRIS WAC image can be found at;-
www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/01/Philae_above_the...
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Philae's Journey - V3
This OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera shot is thought to show Phillae during her journey across 67P on 12/11/2014. I have drawn the guesstimated trajectories, with the second one in green passing through the spot that is guaged to be Phillae by the Rosetta team.
Phillae is known to have had a glancing graze with one of her feet on the Hatmehit depression rim, 46 minutes into her first bounce. The first part of this first bounce is shown in blue. The actual point of contact is not known, but two images taken early in the flight give a good indication of the direction of that first bounce which I have attempted to project to where Phillae met the cliffs of the rim.
NOTE: These are not calculated trajectories, just interpretations of the information given on the ESA Rosetta Blog. The original OSIRIS WAC image can be found at;-
www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/01/Philae_above_the...
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA