The European Space Agency discovered Philae announced Monday in Paris that occurred at the last minute because Rosetta about a month out of service.
The probe camera traced the lander from a height of 2.7 kilometers. He appeared to have only two of its three legs.
Philae became the first in history a controlled landing on a comet. The lander weighs about one hundred kilo, has a diameter of one meter and is only eighty centimeters high. The instruments on board include, inter alia, a drill bit, which had to take samples from the bottom. Soon after landing appeared exhausted battery. Which could later be recharged by solar energy. Nevertheless, the ESA could not trace the lander.
The comet 67P was discovered in 1969 and has a diameter of 4 kilometers. In 2014, the comet was located at 264 million kilometers from the earth
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