We had almost forgotten the little robot Philae, lying on the tchouri comet. On 12 November, the Rosetta probe was dropping the 20 kilometers of the comet. He had fallen asleep, be solar energy. As the comet approaches the sun, the hopes of scientists are revived. Since 12 March in the morning, they try to communicate with the robot. Researchers have only three or four hours a day.
“Currently, the radio signal is flat” says one scientist. “We are in March, Philae is shaded most of the time. We will spend the spring on the comet in April and arrive in summer in August,” , explains a researcher. If the robot wakes up, he will continue to study the comet debris from the creation of the solar system. After ten years of travel and four months of sleep, it would be good Philae get back to work.
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