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Rosetta Comet Orbiter -** 120 Icy Patches ** Philae Phones Home ** Ceres Fly Over Video ** New Coma Discovery ** Picture MOTHER LODE !
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Well the five candidate landing sites have been chosen from ten possible sites. Here they are on a map of the comet. [ link to www.esa.int] Three of the sites are on the head of the duck. One interesting site is site B. That is the "engine" or "crater of doom" or "entrance to the interior" depending on which idea you like. Here is picture showing crater B in its most doomy look, on the right in this image. [ link to www.esa.int] We have discussed this deep crater before and why shadows on 67P easily make crater floors disappear. Here is the in depth analysis of landing site selection with some more nice images. [ link to www.esa.int] The landing site selection has been more problematic than they imagined when Rosetta was launched due to 67P's complex shape, rotation and differences in expected surface composition. K
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