First results of the surface of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be presented in about a month – the radio station Echo of Moscow

The first results of the study the surface of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be presented in about a month, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The second data packet will be available in six months.

With the eagerly awaiting the results of the first scientific studies of the comet, scientists around the world, including Russia. As told Tass deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Korablyov, I would like to receive the isotopic analysis of the soil of the comet, which was conceived for this mission. Comet – said the scientist – a natural refrigerator for the primary substance from which the solar system formed. Alas – slandered Korablyov – contact methods to extract soil failed: Fila machine could not get to the core of a celestial body. Now the research will be continued with the spacecraft Rosetta remotely. But, despite the difficulties encountered, the ship considers that this ambitious project of the European Space Agency’s success. For its part, the academic secretary of the same institute Alexander Zakharov hopes that the module

will not be costly space debris, and on the surface of the comet will come to life with the first hit of sunlight on his chargers. Agency interlocutor sure that European experts now take a number of measures to Fila working again, but now it is more dependent on the trajectory of the comet. As soon as it comes out of the shadows, the research unit will revive and will likely be able to continue scientific work. However, when this happens, the scientist predict not taken.

The module Fila last week for the first time in the history of landed on the comet, until that gets more than 10 years.