One of my observation posts that I made during a week of unclear skies was on a podcast from Astronomycast.com -and the podcast? the Rosetta Mission in route to land on a comet. Well I guess I'll count this as a success! Philae, after two bounces, landed on C67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. There is less illumination for the solar pannels than astronomers had hoped for- but that is the only complaint. All sytems are fully functional and the pictures (like the one above) are coming through nice and clear. The Rosetta Mission won't come to and end (if all goes well) until December of 2015, after the comet has passed by the Sun.
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