Philae lander wakes up on surface of comet, tweets ‘Hello Earth!’

The European Space Agencys Philae lander woke up on the surface of a comet and tweeted “Hello Earth!” The ESA’s European Space Operations Center received signals for 85 seconds from the lander on June 13. Philae landed on Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko in November 2014 and became the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. The landing was troublesome as Philae bounced twice and worked for only 60 hours before going dark. NASA announced that data collected by its Alice instrument aboard Rosetta led to a comet atmosphere discovery.”]

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