European Space Agency scientists face an anxious wait to see if a probe landed on a comet has enough power left to send results of a drill down into its surface back to Earth 500 million kilometres away. Stefan Ulamec, Philae lander manager at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, said it was an uncertain time for the mission. We are not sure whether our batteries still have enough energy so that we can transmit this data when we get the contact again, he said.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:14:12 +0000
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