Rosetta got pictures of Philae probe landing points and a photo of the probe itself.

The problem of the landing of Philae's now falling asleep on the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was discussed many times in various media. And indeed - the process of landing a probe on an object with a low level of gravity is technically very complicated.

Philae did not escape the problem . After the first landing, the probe rose above the surface of the comet, descended again, and rose again. The third landing was not very successful, which we already wrote about at Geektimes. Now it turned out that one of the Rosetta photo tools was able to lift the touchdown of the probe.
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The landing of the probe was filmed by an OSIRIS camera from an interplanetary station, when it was located at a distance of 17.5 kilometers from the surface of the comet. The resolution of images in this case is 28 centimeters per pixel.

The announcement snapshot shows the different moments of the landing of the probe, and below - a series of individual photos in chronological order (this is the maximum resolution, there are no better quality photos). The beginning is 15:43 GMT. The project team is confident that combining CONSERT information with OSIRIS and navcam images, as well as information from other tools, will provide accurate data on the current location of the probe.



The final position of the probe is still not exactly clarified, only the approximate position of the probe is known. As it is known, Philae is now asleep, but scientists hope that as the comet approaches the Sun, the probe will be able to get enough energy for further operation of the device.

At the moment, the probe performed about 85% of all planned work, so that the mission can be considered quite successful.

Via esa