Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Want to try putting a lander down safely on a comet?

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Want to try putting a lander down safely on a comet?

My first try got me "75% success" (better than the actual mission....).

I tried two more times, with worse results.............


If you scroll down on the page linked above, you can see the BBC's description, in a slate quarry, of what it might be like to try to land on a chancy surface with sharp pointy boulders (nevermind trying to do that landing from millions of miles away, on a moving target, unable to see what you're trying to land on!).............

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