Rosetta’s Lander Is Now Asleep on the Comet Waiting For a Brighter Sun

By Sarah Zhang

Rosetta's Lander Is Now Asleep on the Comet Waiting For a Brighter Sun

Goodnight, Philae, though not, we hope, goodbye. The lander is now in sleep mode, keeping “all instruments and most systems on board shut down.” Thankfully, engineers managed to gather all the collected comet data before Philae’s batteries were depleted. If we’re lucky, …

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