ESA’s Rosetta Mission Makes Historic Landing On Comet In A Journey More Than A Decade In The Making,

ESA’s Rosetta Mission Makes Historic Landing On Comet In a journey more than a decade in the making, the European Space Agency has confirmed its Rosetta mission successfully landed its Philae probe on the surface of a comet on Wednesday. The ESA’s Philae probe made touchdown on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at 11:03 a.m. EST on Wednesday, making history as the first spacecraft to achieve a soft-landing on the surface of a comet. While NASA’s Deep Impact, released a probe to collide with a comet as a part of its scientific observations in 2005, no mission has accomplished a controlled soft-landing on a comet’s nucleus before. “Our ambitious Rosetta mission has secured a place in the history books: not only is it the first to rendezvous with and orbit a comet, but it is now also the first to deliver a lander to a comet’s surface,” ESA’s Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said. [WATCH LIVE: Webcasts Of The European Space Agency’s Philae Probe Landing On A Comet] The ESA launched its Rosetta spacecraft on March 2, 2004 on an ambitious mission to orbit and then deploy a probe to the surface of a comet, in feats never before accomplished by a spacecraft. Rosetta became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with and orbit a comet on August 6, 2014. The goal of the Rosetta mission is to provide the most detailed observations of a comet to date in order to better understand the composition of a comet’s nucleus and the changes it undergoes as it passes by the sun. Comets, icy remnants left over from the dawn of our solar system, could provide clues as to the conditions that existed 4.6 billion years ago. [WATCH: Game Of Thrones’ Aidan Gillen Appears In Sci-Fi Short Film About ESA’s Rosetta Mission] Read more: http://www.penny4nasa.org/2014/11/12/european-rosetta-mission-makes-historic-comet-landing/

Caer Pakcage Response: Wow

I woke up this morning to dozens of messages from people thanking me for the Caer Package, saying Caer and I had “restored their faith in humanity”, and I’m really stoked and incredibly overwhelmed in a good way by the positive response. First off, the idea credit goes to Caerdwyn as he was the one who approached me about it. If you want to thank anyone, thank him. He’s the reason any of this is a reality.

Second, I’m unbelievably shocked at how many people messaged me asking how they themselves could help. To see that kind of a response from so many, especially those who A) Don’t have a lot to their name or B) have been in that position before, is heartwarming, touching, and something I’m having a lot of trouble processing. The point blank of the issue is simply this: I don’t know HOW you guys can help. This entire design is still in its infant stages. We still have more than our fair share of problems to figure out (Selecting people, the best way to go about finding those in need, etc etc etc), and while the response is greatly appreciated, I’m just at a loss for how people CAN help. ;w;

At the very least I’ll break down how the system works when we order food. You can grab the breakdown beneath the cut. ;w;

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techstarz

10 years ago

But Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were too late. There fishy friends were already turned into fish patties when they got to the drive up window.