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Landing on & photographing a comet

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(@dave-ingram)
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Well, it could be photogrametry. 🙂 Category police, please forgive.

There are some very good & interesting pictures in the slide show.

http://kuow.org/post/researchers-attempt-robotic-landing-comets-surface

 
Posted : November 11, 2014 9:15 am
(@alan-chavers)
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I have been watching this for some time. Hope they can latch on.

 
Posted : November 11, 2014 9:25 am
 rfc
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I wish there was some sense of scale. How big is it and how far away was the camera?

 
Posted : November 11, 2014 10:30 am
 BigE
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> I wish there was some sense of scale. How big is it and how far away was the camera?

I just read an article about it saying it is 2.5 miles wide.

 
Posted : November 11, 2014 1:07 pm
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the article I read about it earlier today

 
Posted : November 11, 2014 1:10 pm
(@paden-cash)
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When I was a kid, this was one of my favorite comic books. I think it was handed down from my cousin.

Science fiction can become science fact if you live long enough. I remember the moon landing. I thought it was cool. But my father was amazed.

He related that 25 years earlier a troop ship he was on in the Pacific got lost and couldn't even find the right island...now we were sending a ship to the moon.

Man has truly reached out and grabbed a handful, that's for sure.

 
Posted : November 12, 2014 4:41 am
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Here is a link to the live landing.

http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding

B-)

 
Posted : November 12, 2014 4:53 am