Robot Philae, for the first time in the history of humankind to land on the comet began transmit data – pictures and sounds. Engineers of the European Space Agency (ESA) reported that eight out of ten scientific instruments mounted on the robot, operated and can be used to study the nucleus of comet Churyumov – Gerasimenko.
According to the ESA, scientists will try to include the other two instruments, when they are completely sure that the robot firmly “hold” for the surface of the comet. The agency also said that the radio communication with the robot is functioning normally and problems with ensuring its energy is no .
Landing Philae difficult: failed taxiing jet engine did not work harpoons, ropes which needed to pull the device to the surface. According to some reports, Philae bounced three times on the surface of the comet , like a ball of pingpong. The first time he jumped as much as a mile.
In the ESA report from Philae installed reliable radio contact. Experts are taking the first data. However, since the device is not mounted on the surface, is endangered some experiments, such as drilling. There is a risk that the probe can be literally blown away from the comet when it suddenly starts erupting gases . However, experts do not give up hope yet to shoot harpoons and secure Philae.
Meanwhile, in the ESA continues to astound the record made on the eve of landing on a comet . Equipment designed for the analysis of the magnetic field, recorded a high-frequency signals. Professor Karl-Heinz Glashmeyer responsible for studying plasma transpose signals in the range perceptible by the human ear, and got some melody.
Ufology, of course, assumed that the ESA intercepted talks aliens . They remembered the strange object, like a flying saucer, photographed 10 September 2014 navigation camera (NAVCAM) probe Rosetta. He literally hovered near the comet, casting a shadow on the surface. However, over the music source and have a scientific explanation. According to Professor Glashmeyera, so sounds a stream of charged particles emitted by the comet – the same plasma.
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