{"id":5436,"date":"2014-11-15T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=european-space-agencys-rosetta-makes-historic-first-landing-on-a-comet"},"modified":"2014-11-15T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T12:05:59","slug":"european-space-agencys-rosetta-makes-historic-first-landing-on-a-comet","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=european-space-agencys-rosetta-makes-historic-first-landing-on-a-comet","title":{"rendered":"European Space Agency&#039;s Rosetta  Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the European Space Agency&#039;s Rosetta mission successfully landed on the surface of comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Descending at a speed of about 2 mph (3.2 kilometers per hour) the lander, called &quot;Philae,&quot; first touched down and its signal was received at 8:03 a.m. PST (11:03 a.m. EST).\u00a0Partially due to anchoring harpoons not firing, and the comet&#039;s low gravity (a hundred-thousand times less than that of Earth), Philae bounced off the surface and flew up to about six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) both above the comet&#039;s surface as well as downrange. At 9:53 a.m. PST (12:53 p.m. EST), almost two hours after first contact, Philae again touched down. A second, more modest bounce resulted, again sending it airborne. Philae&#039;s third contact with the comet&#039;s nucleus was the charm. 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