FierceRadiance Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Fair winds and following seas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heskaroid Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 (edited) i dont get what you are talking about but what i can tell you is that how amazed i am to hear when the purple stuffed worm in the flapjaw space, with a tuning fork, does a raw blink on a hari kari rock I NEED SCISSORS 61 Edited September 30, 2016 by heskaroid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldnacpeek Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 4 hours ago, heskaroid said: i dont get what you are talking about- The Rosetta space probe crashed into a comet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heskaroid Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 12 minutes ago, LazerSkink said: The Rosetta space probe crashed into a comet. oh damn. Rip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefPlays Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 21 minutes ago, LazerSkink said: The Rosetta space probe crashed into a comet. Wait, was it on purpose? I know they tend to like doing this sort of thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heskaroid Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 5 minutes ago, Jeffrey94 said: Wait, was it on purpose? I know they tend to like doing this sort of thing doubt they'd do something like that on a very successful probe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefPlays Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Just now, heskaroid said: doubt they'd do something like that on a very successful probe Galileo? Juno? possibly Cassini? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrownStalin Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 3 hours ago, Jeffrey94 said: Galileo? Juno? possibly Cassini? I think they crash all probes no matter how successful to keep it from contaminating any interstellar objects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverlordMcGeek Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 25 minutes ago, BrownStalin said: I think they crash all probes no matter how successful to keep it from contaminating any interstellar objects. The one that landed on the comet last year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrownStalin Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Just now, OverlordMcGeek said: The one that landed on the comet last year? I don't know the name of the probe so, i can't really check but from sources i found out that they crash the probes to make sure it doesn't contaminate objects that they decide will be of better use to us in the future or to see how the impact of the probe will effect the surface of the object(That was how they found water samples on the moon). There is also another reason and that is that the probe has run out of fuel and they don't want it loitering in space. Sometimes though it is unavoidable due to the orbit requiring the probe to make a one way trip to get pictures of the object. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverlordMcGeek Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 2 minutes ago, BrownStalin said: I don't know the name of the probe so, i can't really check but from sources i found out that they crash the probes to make sure it doesn't contaminate objects that they decide will be of better use to us in the future or to see how the impact of the probe will effect the surface of the object(That was how they found water samples on the moon). There is also another reason and that is that the probe has run out of fuel and they don't want it loitering in space. Sometimes though it is unavoidable due to the orbit requiring the probe to make a one way trip to get pictures of the object. Just looked it up. My bad. It wasn't last year but Nov 2014. Philae it sort of bounced around. So I guess they did try to crash it but didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrownStalin Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 4 minutes ago, OverlordMcGeek said: Just looked it up. My bad. It wasn't last year but Nov 2014. Philae it sort of bounced around. So I guess they did try to crash it but didn't work. Yeah, it seemed like everything that should not have happened in a landing happened in the landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FierceRadiance Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 5 hours ago, Jeffrey94 said: Wait, was it on purpose? I know they tend to like doing this sort of thing Philea was indeed 'dropped off' by the Rosetta probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) two years ago, after a fricking AMAZING journey being sling-shotted around the Solar System for TEN YEARS, including three different passes around Earth. After all that time it arrived precisely where it was aimed, and the Philea lander was released. Philea achieved a 'soft landing' on 67P, but ended up in a crevasse, and stopped functioning after three days due to no sunlight falling on it's solar panels. No sunlight meant no electricity, and after three days, it's batteries became exhausted. Rosetta's main craft has continued to orbit the comet for the past two years, taking pictures and various measurements, but the comet and it's passengers are now traveling beyond the point where even Rosetta with it's much larger solar-cell 'wings' can receive enough sunlight to continue to function. So, as it's final maneuver, today Rosetta was also 'soft-landed' on the comet, and there it will spend the rest of its days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artekkor Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 (edited) 20 hours ago, FierceRadiance said: Philea was indeed 'dropped off' by the Rosetta probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) two years ago, after a fricking AMAZING journey being sling-shotted around the Solar System for TEN YEARS, including three different passes around Earth. After all that time it arrived precisely where it was aimed, and the Philea lander was released. Philea achieved a 'soft landing' on 67P, but ended up in a crevasse, and stopped functioning after three days due to no sunlight falling on it's solar panels. No sunlight meant no electricity, and after three days, it's batteries became exhausted. Rosetta's main craft has continued to orbit the comet for the past two years, taking pictures and various measurements, but the comet and it's passengers are now traveling beyond the point where even Rosetta with it's much larger solar-cell 'wings' can receive enough sunlight to continue to function. So, as it's final maneuver, today Rosetta was also 'soft-landed' on the comet, and there it will spend the rest of its days. That is awesome. Goodbye Rosetta, you served humanity well. Glad to see that whoever shot Rosetta out there are actually thinking about what to do with drones that no longer do their intended job. And in such a unique way too... Just leave it there. Forever and ever. Maybe aliens will find it, eh? Edited October 1, 2016 by Artek94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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