<story><title>Philae status, a day later</title><url>http://elakdawalla.tumblr.com/post/102544296955/philae-status-a-day-later</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>These are the original photos from which 67P&amp;#x2F;Churyumov-Gerasimenko was discovered back in 1969:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/15398150830/in/set-72157638315605535&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.flickr.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;europeanspaceagency&amp;#x2F;1539815083...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find it amazing how we&amp;#x27;ve gone from a dim blur on a photographic plate (which was found by accident when trying to photograph a different comet entirely) to what we see now.&lt;p&gt;I also find it fascinating to think how close we were to landing on an entirely different comet if the original launch window had been hit. There&amp;#x27;s just so much out there. What was on that other comet (46P&amp;#x2F;Wirtanen) that we might never get to see?</text></comment>
<story><title>Philae status, a day later</title><url>http://elakdawalla.tumblr.com/post/102544296955/philae-status-a-day-later</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>Looks like COSAC data is coming in! &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/533387528376942592&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;esaoperations&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;533387528376942592&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is an instrument that does analysis on whatever samples the drill picks up. We know the drill successfully deployed earlier, so hopefully that means it picked up &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; and we now have the data from that!&lt;p&gt;Looks like that&amp;#x27;s pretty much it for the battery though, unless last minute manoeuvrings result in the potential for a recharge in the future:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/Philae2014/status/533403430489178112&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;Philae2014&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;533403430489178112&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: CONSERT data now coming in! CONSERT is an instrument to detect a radar pulse sent out by Rosetta that travels &lt;i&gt;through&lt;/i&gt; the centre of the comet to tell us something about its internal structure. Also another ROLIS image (panorama) has been taken, though it&amp;#x27;s not clear to me if it&amp;#x27;s been transmitted yet. Very low battery now.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONSERT&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;CONSERT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I missed this before, but it looks like Ptolemy data has been received too! This is another instrument that&amp;#x27;s supplied with samples from the drill.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/31445-instruments/?fbodylongid=896&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sci.esa.int&amp;#x2F;rosetta&amp;#x2F;31445-instruments&amp;#x2F;?fbodylongid=89...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>