What is a Comet?
A
comet is an icy small solar system body that, when passing close to the Sun,
heats up and begins to out-gas, displaying a visible atmosphere or coma, and
sometimes also a tail.
Philae. (spacecraft)
•Philae
is a robotic European Space Agency Lander.
•On
12th
November 2014, the lander achieved the first ever controlled touchdown on a
comet nucleus.
•It’s
instruments are expected to obtain the first images from comet’s surface.
It’s Missions:
•Philae’s
mission is to land
successfully on the surface of a comet, attach itself, and transmit data from
the surface about the comet's composition.
