Will anyone be staying up tonight to watch the Rosetta probe

Now i will, thanks senpai

>>8381430
just found this out... guess I'm staying up.

thanks m8

>probe hits comet
>Deutsche Bank implodes

exciting friday

There's also http://livestream.com/ESA/rosettagrandfinale

Will there be any survivors?

>>8381458
Just Uranus

>>8381458
It will be extremely painful.

>Rosetta lands
>Setting off the tiniest shift in comet's orbit
>1000 years have passed
>Humanity is just climbing out of the post-apocalyptic wasteland they've gotten themselves into
>Mankind is making a comeback
>plants are growing again
>children are laughing
>SUDDENLY Comet 67P cruising at the Earth at a cool 135,000 km/h
>Philae and Rosetta on top
>We back bitches!

2 MINUTES ROSETTA BROS GET IN HERE

OP why'd you pick a cat gif

>>8381503
Because I couldn't find my Science Cat meme pic

Rosetta took some photographs during its descent.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtkZ98XWYAAfhcD.jpg

This one was taken 16 km above the surface

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ctk2qGBW8AA9fIT.jpg

and this one 15.4 km above. Thought I'd share these

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>>8381503
2 Minutes?

>>8381466
heheh

>>8381510
Damn I was looking on the ESA site, they had a different countdown. The new video just went up, but it looks like just mission control working at the moment.

>>8381514
What you saw might have been the countdown from when they actually gave the thing a command to actually start crashing. Remember everything is moving and there's maths involved.

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http://livestream.com/ESA/rosettagrandfinale

>>8381517
So stoked they found Philae just before the end.

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Picture taken by Rosetta 8.9 kilometers from the surface

>>8381538
I hope Rosetta lands gently in that billowy-looking layer of comet dust.

Some comfy-ass looking chairs they've got.

>>8381551
Its not trying to land, the idea is to crash at high speed

why are they crashing it into a comet

>>8381567
Because it's no longer going to be useful and the missions it was sent there to do are complete.

>>8381430
Thread theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHw5cKPIm5U

>>8381563
With no survivors.

>>8381570
Well, they will expect one of us in the wreckage

>>8381567
It wants to snuggle again with Philae.

So we are about 50min away from impact?

So the nature website now has a real time thread going where there are two nasa scientists there. You can ask them questions

No trolling pls..

http://www.nature.com/news/rosetta-crashes-into-comet-live-from-the-nature-studio-1.20684

>>8381581
>no comments

damn i feel bad

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>>8381521

Oh.

Now this really looks a Kerbal Space Program mission.
Landers bouncing, probes crashing,science gathering.
And that's cool.

>>8381579
More than an hour from impact and there is a 38 minute delay on the signal

>>8381582
I really want to ask something, these people are my heroes

>Playing Kerbal
>Just in the middle of a daring re-entry

>Suddenly LOTR music starts playing
Good pick ESA.

>>8381587
I asked them if the real mission is to save the Earth like they did in the actual Armageddon movie. idk if my post will get modded tho..

>>8381590
Champion

>>8381590
Noice

>>8381588
what was the song

>>8381591
>>8381592
people are asking dumb questions like how do u name the comets..

>>8381597

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXvZVdKyj44

>>8381598
I asked if it will survive the impact. Fuck me it wont even be going 1m/s if this was KSP id call that a perfect touchdown

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None of my questions are getting thru

lol someone nixed that noise

>>8381603
Kek

>>8381603
Hahaha it got through

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>>8381605
Im in the system!

>>8381603
Dude stop you've clearly damaged Lizzie's higher brain function

>>8381608
what else should i ask? give me some scientifical suggestions

>>8381607
How many fucking ions does the comet have you madman

>>8381609
"The comet looks a bit like a potato, is it edible?"

>>8381611
Done.
Live stream is up

ustream.tv/NASAJPL2

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>Travel through space for a decade and land on a comet and do all this science shit no one's done before with comets
>What a great success, I wonder what kinds of questions people have about this big mission.

>Ayo hol' up why it all b/w? Where's the color? Can I eat that comet it looks tasty.

>>8381614
Whats happening in this stream? And now I think about the comet is mostly ice so it probably is actually edible

>>8381615
We have failed if this doesn't turn into an epic meme viewed by 100 million people.

It will be the Super Bowl of comet videos

>>8381617
theyre going to stream the satellite crashing into the comet

>>8381619
It will just be a series of photos wont it, not real time video?

>>8381620
It's video.

Also, they answered my question about color in space.

>In the last moments of descent, a figure can be seen looking up at the approaching orbiter.
>The thing utters MURLURBROAP
>Then gets flattened at 1 m/s

>>8381621
POTATO QUESTION IS UP, KEK IS WITH US

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>>8381623
I can't believe I'm talking with NASA Scientists and these are my questions!

>>8381625
They actually answered it holy shit

>>8381625
>with NASA Scientists
Arent they ESA scientists?

>>8381629
I guess my accomplishments aren't as great as I thought.

>>8381609
How many different kinds of metals are on this comet?

>>8381609
If the comet was dropped into earths oceans could it reverse global warming?

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>>8381430
>Will anyone be staying up tonight to watch the Rosetta probe crash into a comet tonight?
>>8381443
>Now i will, thanks senpai

I will watch it with you guys :-)

>>8381458

It's a big asteroid.

>its black

very scary

>>8381637
4[spoiler]*comet*[/spoiler]

>>8381637
Its a comet you pleb. Philae sheds a robotic tear

>>8381634
>If the comet was dropped into earths oceans could it reverse global warming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PuNPTx8Ki0

No, because the warming is caused by the fact that carbon dioxide and methane radiate less long wave radiation back out in to space than oxygen and nitrogen do (it's like how people who own automobiles with a dark color paint job notice that their automobile gets hotter in the summer than the same make and model automobile with a lighter paint job). You need to read Svante Arrhenius' papers on carbonic acid and climate change that were published in the 19th century.

>>8381638
WE

Bleh, the only live broadcast I can find that works is only showing the situation room.

...and now it's showing a music video montage...

>>8381643
WUZ

>>8381642
Its a question for scicat to ask the scientists because its a stupid question

Showtime.

>>8381646
COMETS

>>8381646
COMMETS?

>>8381639
>>8381640

I have no defense except that it's past 3 in the morning.

>>8381644
NVM, some MILF named Monika Jones just showed up to tell me I'm 50 minutes early.

>>8381653
As long as you're ashamed its ok

>>8381651
AND

>>8381660
SHEIT

>>8381631
Ask if there's the possibility that the downed satellite will detect microscopic life on the comet now that it's close enough.

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This seems like an odd image to have on file unless the comet actually had the potential to hit Earth

>>8381671
No doubt people have asked your exact question before, and half the team is British so it makes sense

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Still uncertain if we're landing on a comet, or slaying some sorta giant space Kaiju.

This is the single most imposing looking rock I've ever seen.

>>8381676
Apparently its 70% empty space

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>>8381643
>>8381646
>>8381651
>>8381652
>>8381660
>>8381664

>>8381678
Clearly it's a mega-godzilla egg.

CRASHING THIS PROBE

WITH NO SURVIVORS

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Kinda wonder why they decided to go all Bane with this one, after attempting to land the last one, and being, well, semi-successful.

>Remembering all the "electric universe" tinfoils insisting it'd be incinerated by plasma charges.

>>8381688
The last one was designed to land, Rosetta is being crashed more or less for shits and giggles

This interviewer is kind of hot.

it should have crashed already. will hear about it only in 35 minutes or so

light speed delay etc..

Wish that guy would wear his "sexist" shirt on this great occasion

I'm curious about how it got it's shape. Did the two pieces slowly crash into each other so they didn't bounce away from one another?

>>8381699
They literally just explained it

>>8381699
>Did the two pieces slowly crash into each other
Yup. It was likely originally a single large comet that broke apart, 67-P was formed by 2 fragments which underwent a low speed collision

>>8381699
Seems so.

Either that, or they're making more comets, doggie style.

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2km shot

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>>8381699
Yes.

Poor bastards are using Windows 7.

>disgusting.jpg

Those cartoons are 2cute3handle.

>>8381671
Ask if they practiced their maneuvers in Kerbal Space Program before trying them in real life

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~1km

its sooper dooper

>>8381724
NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR FEAR

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2.8cm/pixel bottom of pit.
crazy resolution

They are shutting it down as soon as it impacts???
Why?

>>8381430
Another stream:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/30/rosetta-the-final-descent/

>>8381731
Legal reasons apparently to do with interfering with radio signals in the future or something. Even if they didn't turn it off it will be broken and the antenna will be out of alignment so they couldn't talk to it anyway

>>8381731
its narrow-angle transmitter wont be able to point at the earth anymore; so you wont get any data anyway.

To prevent any possibility of re-fouling the airwaves on the DSN network, the spacecraft is passivated.

>>8381584
How does it find its mark? I'm guessing remote control is out of the question.

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>tfw posthumans stumble upon it in 10,000 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY

;_;7

>>8381731

My guess, but Rosetta, as every other probe has a high gain parabolic antenna as COMM, which is always pointed to Earth, easily pointed with rcs or Gyroscopes in the vacuum of space.
Probably not designed to be pointed from a rotating comet, without rcs aid, since it should be fixed to the body of the probe. So i guess the moment the probe will touch the ' land ' communication will be lost forever

>>8381737
Sleep tight little probe, you made us all proud

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7 minutes

Once electricity leaves, the void inside will be free to gain a soul in one hundred years.

Then Rosetta can come on home.

>>8381736
Its trajectory was worked out and timed in advance, target was locked in yesterday when they made the final burn

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>not watching it live with other fellow astronomy fans

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Waiting.

What a delightfully awkward wait this will be then

>>8381746
Lucky, would much rather be there than getting ready for my shift.

Oh boy
Here it is the requiem

NO SIGNAL
RIP Rosetta

BUT WAIT, SOMETHING TURNED IT BACK ON HOLY SHIT.

Goodbye Rosetta

It's dead...

YAY!

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DSN Madrid gone silent.
Goodbye Rosetta!

Goodnight sweet prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U52sP25ynE

Goodnight.

awkward bag packing

Sleep tight, brave adventurers.

Ok, everybody, it's over, now we can go home

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>>8381766
last data packet received.

;_:7

Seems, with a multi-million dollar set of working transmitter and sensory systems up there, one coulda done something more useful with it than make an aluminum pancake.

We got a team that can put objects onto comets but we can't have anything better than a monkey operating the audio

>>8381760

Never realized that for each and every operating probe in our solar system you need to have an array of fucking big ass antennae scattered around the globe...
nice

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Image from 1.2 km up.

>>8381769
They decided this was the best use of the probe, the alternative was to switch it off and hope they could turn it on in a few years when it 67-P comes back towards the sun. The second option had very low odds of success

>>8381772
>for each and every operating probe in our solar system you need to have an array of fucking big ass antennae scattered around the globe...
Actually, there's just one really big array and everyone shares time on it.

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>>8381714
It added suspense...

I kept wondering what would happen if Windows suddenly demanded an update during the last seconds of the descent.

>>8381773
Into the blackness.

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>>8381775
>>8381772
it is called the DSN, Deep Space Network.
You can check all of it here, live:
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

right now Madrid is working on SOHO and Osiris-Rex,
Canberras big one is downlinking data from New Horizons - more pluto pictures - while 2 small ones work on mars orbiters - and the 3rd in Canberra works on Voyager 2.

Round trip light time to Voyager 2 - 1.30 days
its pretty dank. Look at that bit-rate!

>>8381782
Wow this is really cool. I never realized.

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>>8381789

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>>8381773
So exploitable...

>nope!

THEY DIDN"T FUCKING SHOW THE FINAL IMAGE

>>8381782

Holy cow, 159 baud
Well less than a c64 modem, but i guess that's ok for raw data (no images)

But also the power received... -159dbm !!!
Voyager has a really sturdy transmitter, working for 40 years without failing

>>8381782
Downloading endless argument about where the solar system actually ends at 159.00 b/sec.

>>8381799
youll see it. Its gotta be deconvolved, sharpened, etc. Give the science teams a few minutes...

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Second to last image.
10m up.

Dees cartoons! :...(

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>ded in the filename

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Dem fucking FEELS man

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>>8381812
lets go get all scifi right away and launch some humans to look a the dusty rosetta in the future.

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Someone on Twitter managed to get this.

>>8381810
lmao its a needle dick

cuteness overload on their twitter stream
https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta

>>8381816
Well it was on a collision course with that big lopsided bubblebutt.

>>8381819
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcYo-qQ5HbA

fuck you eurobastards I'm not going to fucking cry about a fucking metal box with sensors in it!

;_;

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ESA has released Rosetta's final image:
>Rosetta's last image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken shortly before impact, at an altitude of 51 m above the surface.
>The image was taken with the OSIRIS wide-angle camera on 30 September.
>The image scale is about 5 mm/pixel and the image measures about 2.4 m across.

Did it dieded?

press F to pay respects

F

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>>8381992
U

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Glad everyone enjoyed this. I'm even more excited to have asked some mild level troll questions. Even MOAR surprised that they actually answered them scientifically.

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>>8381870
But the japanese already did it for Hayabusa

>>8381773
>>8381779
>>8381794
https://youtu.be/4zLfCnGVeL4

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A couple of vids by the DLR (german space agency) about the inception in the 1990's and operations of Rosetta. They were released about two years ago (so before the landing attempt), but they are really instructive and well-made. Enjoy

https://youtu.be/5b7u6stKgfs
https://youtu.be/cArihDTnOZg

>>8381679
perfect

>>8381814
Is this CIA?

>>8382356
No, it's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcYo-qQ5HbA

Some context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H08tGjXNHO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSdYCPATV9o

Notice the video upload dates. It's a little sci-fi short film they made to promote the mission.

>>8382356
No this is Patrick

>>8381430
>600 million km away
>live
heh

>>8382534
There's an 8ms delay between sensation and experience.

Nothing is live.

But, by the standards of which you are speaking - the images from the control room were live, at least. (Albeit, yes, reacting to shit that happened several minutes ago, as they found out about it.)

>>8382993
This is why I don't give a fuck about seeing these events first-hand. Either way I'll see it will be a long time away from when it actually happened

>>8383173
Yeah, but you only get the highlights of the sports reel then - not the moment to moment glee of a hundred scientists celebrating their sudden lack of employment, while a bunch of anon clap for and mock them.

Not that I don't wait until the seasons of most of the shows I'm interested in finish airing, simply because I don't wanna be stuck for a week waiting for the next episode, by which time I'm no longer emotionally invested.

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>>8383213
>not the moment to moment glee of a hundred scientists celebrating their sudden lack of employment,
Not to mention all that tense antici

>>8381517
how did two ice chunks get stuck together like that? What are the odds of them having such perfectly aligned trajectories that their relative velocities wouldn't smash them or send them careening away when they made contact?

>>8383242
Not good, but there's a whole lotta rocks out there, so I very much doubt it's the only such incident of siamese space rocks.

Dunno if the oddness was part of the reason it was selected though.

>>8383242
It was low speed and they did partially smash, they just reformed into the shape we see. Originally they were both part of a larger comet

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>>8383242
Here's what they think happened.

does anyone have an archive or recording of the stream? none of the links itt have them up as far as i can tell

>>8381430
Is the rosetta probe the same one that that stupid SJW bitch that's never looked at a calculator made the guy cry because of his shirt

>>8383382
http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2016/09/Rosetta_s_final_hour
ESA's pretty good about making their stuff publicly available.

>>8383406
thanks

>>8383268
>Dunno if the oddness was part of the reason it was selected though.
Apparently not - I'm not entirely sure if they even knew about the oddness of the object before they approached it.

From: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Frequently_asked_questions

Both 46P/Wirtanen and 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are periodic comets with fairly similar orbits. This means that their return dates and orbits can be predicted with great accuracy. This enabled us to plan the Rosetta rendezvous mission with Wirtanen years in advance.

However, when we were unable to launch in January 2003, we had to weigh the various mission options, bearing in mind the trajectory, amount of fuel and energy required. We had to look for a comet that would be available when we wanted to launch Rosetta and several periodic comets – including Wirtanen – were identified as possible targets. The targets were selected on the basis of three main criteria: scientific return, technical risk to the spacecraft, and funding.

We eventually opted for 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which Rosetta could reach with the same version of the Ariane 5 rocket . The other options, including a launch to Wirtanen in 2004, would have required a more powerful launch vehicle, either an Ariane 5 ECA or a Proton.


So, yeah, just a strange coincidence it happened to be a mutant comet.

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>>8383541
>I'm not entirely sure if they even knew about the oddness of the object before they approached it.

Probably not - this is the best image we have of 46P/Wirtanen, in a very similar orbit.

It's difficult to get any detail on anything that small at a half-billion miles out. Hell, we still discover new comets even closer than either of these every now and again.

Just keep that in mind the next time someone gets it into their head that we're somehow aware of every potential asteroid threat. We aren't - we often miss them until after they make near passes. Not every asteroid is conveniently made of or covered with reflective material, and there's literally billions of them.

>>8383550
>literally billions of them.
More like 2-3 million

>>8383683
That'd be just the asteroids in the main belt - sadly, the majority of them are not so nicely bundled up safe and cozy there.

>>8382454
Part II feels so... european. The setting, the overall refinement and reflective ambiance, love it, very nice way to celebrate a space mission

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>>8381870
T-they're just sleeping right guys?

Shoot. I missed it.

>>8383309
Where did you find this?

>>8384447
Here: http://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2016/09/Rosetta_-_advancing_cometary_science/Animation_showing_possible_formation_of_comet_67P