Rosetta: Comet probe gets down to work (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News

A week after arriving at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Europe's Rosetta probe is busy acquiring the data needed to select a landing site.

Scientists on the mission expect to meet in just over a week to begin the process of producing a "long list" of no more than five locations.

These will then be whittled down to two - a primary and a back-up - to be announced in mid-September.

The plan is to try touch down with the piggybacked Philae robot in November.

On Thursday, a new view of the comet from Rosetta's Osiris Narrow Angle Camera was issued.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28741244
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28741244



Lots of images, including one 3D, at both links.

[Mnemosyne]

1. Comet 67P resembles clay almost, an unsculpted beginning, cool. Wish daughter hadn't tossed 3d's. nt