Near the end of the mission: Philae found!
Near the end of the mission: Philae found!
Although Philae provided measurement data for almost 60 hours after the rough landing on comet 67P on 12 November 2014, the exact location of the lander was unknown. Images taken on 2 September 2016 revealed that Philae was trapped under the edge of a cliff and standing upright, the ‘TD3’ (touchdown point 3). A little to the left, only a few metres away, Philae had its second ground contact, TD2: You can find it on the large left image, if you navigate the red box horizontally to the left about four times. At this rock, the brightest, almost white spot is the three and a half square metre ice field that Philae scraped open at TD2.
