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<blockquote data-quote="Doveaman" data-source="post: 66658129" data-attributes="member: 240268"><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30083969" target="_blank">Comet lander: Camera sees Philae's hairy landing</a></p><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">*This sensor package from the German space agency's Institute for Planetary Research deployed a thermometer on the end of a hammer.</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"> It retrieved a number of temperature profiles but broke as it tried to burrow its way into the comet's subsurface.</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Scientists say this shows the icy material underlying 67P's dust covering to be far harder than anyone anticipated - having the tensile strength of some rocks.</span> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">It also helps explain why Philae bounced so high on that first touchdown.*</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Scientists might have just blown a billion dollars in anticipation of a "snow-ball" landing. </p><p></p><p>If it looks like rock and acts like rock, chances are it is rock, split rock. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doveaman, post: 66658129, member: 240268"] [URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30083969"]Comet lander: Camera sees Philae's hairy landing[/URL] [FONT=Book Antiqua]*This sensor package from the German space agency's Institute for Planetary Research deployed a thermometer on the end of a hammer.[/FONT][FONT=Book Antiqua] It retrieved a number of temperature profiles but broke as it tried to burrow its way into the comet's subsurface.[/FONT][FONT=Book Antiqua] Scientists say this shows the icy material underlying 67P's dust covering to be far harder than anyone anticipated - having the tensile strength of some rocks.[/FONT] [FONT=Book Antiqua]It also helps explain why Philae bounced so high on that first touchdown.*[/FONT] Scientists might have just blown a billion dollars in anticipation of a "snow-ball" landing. If it looks like rock and acts like rock, chances are it is rock, split rock. :eek: [/QUOTE]
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