{"id":221315,"date":"2014-09-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"d894714e799480e711aaab85a63f6796"},"modified":"2014-09-15T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:00:00","slug":"philaes-primary-landing-site-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221315","title":{"rendered":"Philae\u2019s primary landing site in context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/09\/philae_s_primary_landing_site_in_context\/14819936-1-eng-GB\/Philae_s_primary_landing_site_in_context_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nContext image showing the location of the primary landing site for Rosetta\u2019s lander Philae.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSite J is located on the head of Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko. An inset showing a close up of the landing site is also shown. The inset image was taken by Rosetta\u2019s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 20 August 2014 from a distance of about 67 km. The image scale is 1.2 metres\/pixel. The background image was taken on 16 August from a distance of about 100 km. The comet nucleus is about 4 km across.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe primary landing site was chosen from five candidates during the Landing Site Selection Group meeting held on 13\u201314 September 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/J_marks_the_spot_for_Rosetta_s_lander\">&#8216;J&#8217; marks the spot for Rosetta&#8217;s lander<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCredits: ESA\/Rosetta\/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS\/UPD\/LAM\/IAA\/SSO\/INTA\/UPM\/DASP\/IDA<\/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\/images\/2014\/09\/philae_s_primary_landing_site_in_context\/14819936-1-eng-GB\/Philae_s_primary_landing_site_in_context_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nContext image showing the location of the primary landing site for Rosetta\u2019s lander Philae.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSite J is located on the head of Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko. An inset showing a close up of the landing site is also shown. The inset image was taken by Rosetta\u2019s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 20 August 2014 from a distance of about 67 km. The image scale is 1.2 metres\/pixel. The background image was taken on 16 August from a distance of about 100 km. The comet nucleus is about 4 km across.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe primary landing site was chosen from five candidates during the Landing Site Selection Group meeting held on 13\u201314 September 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull story: <a href=\"\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/J_marks_the_spot_for_Rosetta_s_lander\">&#8216;J&#8217; marks the spot for Rosetta&#8217;s lander<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCredits: ESA\/Rosetta\/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS\/UPD\/LAM\/IAA\/SSO\/INTA\/UPM\/DASP\/IDA<\/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-221315","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\/221315","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=221315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221315\/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=221315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}