{"id":221286,"date":"2014-09-11T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"c0bc0b139954af0c50c7bea10288e62c"},"modified":"2014-09-11T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:00:00","slug":"philaes-descent-and-science-on-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221286","title":{"rendered":"Philae\u2019s descent and science on the surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/09\/philae_s_descent_and_science_on_the_surface\/14816538-1-eng-GB\/Philae_s_descent_and_science_on_the_surface_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAnnotated version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/08\/Philae_s_mission_at_comet_67P\">Philae\u2019s mission at comet 67P<\/a> animation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe animation begins with the deployment of Philae from Rosetta at comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko in November 2014. It will take several hours for to reach the surface. Because of the comet\u2019s extremely low gravity, landing gear will absorb the small forces of landing while ice screws in the probe\u2019s feet and a harpoon system will lock the probe to the surface. At the same time a thruster on top of the lander will push it down to counteract the impulse of the harpoon imparted in the opposite direction. Once it is anchored to the comet, the lander will begin its primary science mission, based on its 64-hour initial battery lifetime. The animation shows a number of the science instruments in action on the surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta\u2019s Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/09\/philae_s_descent_and_science_on_the_surface\/14816538-1-eng-GB\/Philae_s_descent_and_science_on_the_surface_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAnnotated version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/08\/Philae_s_mission_at_comet_67P\">Philae\u2019s mission at comet 67P<\/a> animation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe animation begins with the deployment of Philae from Rosetta at comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko in November 2014. It will take several hours for to reach the surface. Because of the comet\u2019s extremely low gravity, landing gear will absorb the small forces of landing while ice screws in the probe\u2019s feet and a harpoon system will lock the probe to the surface. At the same time a thruster on top of the lander will push it down to counteract the impulse of the harpoon imparted in the opposite direction. Once it is anchored to the comet, the lander will begin its primary science mission, based on its 64-hour initial battery lifetime. The animation shows a number of the science instruments in action on the surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta\u2019s Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}