The European Space Agency has found its missing Philae comet lander

Loren Grush at The Verge - All Posts - 57 minutes ago

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has finally found its Philae lander, nearly two years after the vehicle became the first ever to land on a comet. The mission team has struggled to locate the lander since that historic touchdown, and communications with Philae have been sparse to non-existent. But less than a month before the Rosetta mission was set to end, the Rosetta spacecraft — which is in orbit around the comet Philae landed on — has at long last imaged the little lander on the comet’s surface. ------------------------------ "It is incredible we have captured thi... more »