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According to the recent reports revealed, The European Space Agency has confirmed the time and place it will attempt to land the first spacecraft on a comet.
On Wednesday, the ESA said, it’s unmanned probe Rosetta will release the 100-kilogram (220-pound) lander at 0835 GMT (3:35 EST) on 12th November.
The purpose is to drop the Philae lander at a location named as ‘Site J’ on the 4 kms (2.5 mile) wide comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
ESA officials told that, the mission took 7 hours to complete as radio signals have to travel more than 400 million kilometers (250 million miles) back to Earth and the confirmation of a successful landing won’t arrive until about 1600 GMT (11:00 a.m. EST).
Moreover, the researchers are hopeful that this maneuver would assist them in order to learn more about the origins and evolutions of objects in the universe.
Brian Galloway
Brian’s philosophy is pretty straightforward: easy living, wishful thinking, heavy criticizing. Despite the fact that he wouldn’t go as far as describe himself a conspirationist, Brian does take everything with a grain of sand. He loves following every lead when covering a story and mostly enjoys to cover politics and US news.
