Write An Essay On Philae's Comet

Did you know that Comets are tiny pieces of stuff left over from when our Solar System was born? Philae’s Mission is very important to scientists because, he was on a comet. Since Philae was on a comet he could collect samples and other things scientists want to understand early history of the Solar System. The Philae Mission is important for scientific research, he took a long time to get there and he landed in a bad spot.

It took Philae a decade to get to the comet, although he won't be staying long. According to the passage “A Success in Space” By Cameron Keady “ As soon as it landed, a 64 hour countdown began, when it ends Philae’s on board battery will run down”. This shows that Philae won’t last very long. Another example is “ After a more than 10.5 year voyage, this robotic lander has just set down onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. On november 12 the day it landed Philae and its mothership Rosetta Spacecraft were roughly 500 million kilometers from

The early data suggest that the lander is getting just 1.5 hours of sunlight per day. That is far less than the six to seven hours it would have gotten if it landed exactly on target-- which it did. At first”. This shows that he landed in a bad area and he isn’t getting enough sunlight. Another example is “On that first touchdown Philae hit the bull’s eye. But the lander didn’t stick it’s landing. Instead it bounced twice. In between the first and second touchdown, the lander shot a kilometer up into space. In fact it caught almost two hours of air time before it hit 67P again” (Yeager 15). This shows that he did land in the right spot the first time but he bounced and they don’t know where he landed now. To conclude Philae set down in a problematic area and they are trying to figure out