“Rosetta” to choose a place to land – NIA – Tver

The probe “Rosetta” photographed at close range 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

 Pictures help to plan a place to anchor “Fila”, get down the machine. By the end of August will be chosen five alleged landing sites, and by mid-September, experts finally stop at one of them. If all goes according to plan, “Fila” should be down on the comet on November 11 writes “News project INFOX.ru».

 Note canceled after two attempts to start the “Rosetta” was launched March 2, 2004. According to the mission, “Rosetta” has to reach the comet and run to her lander “Fila”. “Fila” will come to a comet with a relative velocity of 1 m / s and in contact with the surface will release two harpoon as weak gravity of the comet is not able to hold the device, and it can just bounce. It should be noted that the mission of “Rosetta” is very complicated. Its mission includes many maneuvers in orbit using the gravitational field of the Earth and Mars.