Subject: A Singing Comet! Mystery Signal Confirmed by European Space Agency! Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:33 am
A Singing Comet! Mystery Signal Confirmed by European Space Agency!
Published on Nov 11, 2014
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com The European Space Agency (ESA) today confirmed that it was receiving a mysterious signal from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In a post on its live streaming website, it described the signal as a “mystery song” and uploaded a recording with the caption: “Hear our comet sing.”
The confirmation follows months of rumors that the Rosetta mission was originally sent to explore a radio signal from the comet first detected 20 years ago. The November 12 landing of the Rosetta mission’s Philae probe will be live streamed to the world. [watch live below]
The ESA’s surprise announcement hints that the significance of the landing may go well beyond the historic first of humanity landing a probe on a comet.
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Subject: Comet 67P Sings a Mysterious Song caught by Rosetta Spacecraft Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:37 am
Comet 67P Sings a Mysterious Song caught by Rosetta Spacecraft
Published on Nov 11, 2014
As if to celebrate tomorrow’s landing of Philae on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Rosetta mission has detected a mysterious signal coming from the 2.5 mile-wide lump of ice and rock.Read Full Story:http://www.cosmostv.org/2014/11/comet...
Here is the slowed version of sound:https://youtu.be/yxnRUqzlvGk
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Subject: Listen to Rosetta's comet 'sing': Scientists baffled by mysterious sounds recorded near 67P ahead of Philae landing Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:49 am
Listen to Rosetta's comet 'sing': Scientists baffled by mysterious sounds recorded near 67P ahead of Philae landing
Song recorded on instrument designed to analyse 67P's magnetic field
Scientists believe it was created by a stream of charged particles
However, the precise physical process behind sound remains a mystery
Engineers hope it will prove useful in guiding the Philae landing tomorrow
If all goes to plan, Philae will send a signal back to Earth at 4pm GMT
Comet data could reveal how solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago
By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 14:23 EST, 11 November 2014 | UPDATED: 14:37 EST, 11 November 2014
Something strange is happening on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 67P as space engineers prepare for a historic landing: the icy space rock is 'singing'.
The mysterious sound has baffled scientists, who recorded it using a Rosetta instrument originally designed to analyse the comet's magnetic field.
Instead, this instrument picked up a strange bubbling sound which scientists believe was created by a stream of electrically-charged particles.
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+3 Something strange is happening on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 67P as space engineers prepare for a historic landing: the icy space rock is 'singing' 'This is exciting because it is completely new to us,' said Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier, principal investigator with Rosetta's Plasma Consortium.
'We did not expect this and we are still working to understand the physics of what is happening.'
The comet is 'singing' at 40-50 millihertz, but the human ear only picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz.
Because the original audio is below the threshold of human hearing, Professor Glaßmeier has created a recording with the pitch magnified a thousand times.
Click below to play the audio
TOUCHDOWN ON THE COMET: PHILAE'S DETAILED LANDING TIMELINE
Rosetta will release Philae at 08:35 GMT/09:35 CET on 12 November at a distance. Pictured is an artist's impression of the lander on Comet 67P Rosetta will release Philae at 08:35 GMT/09:35 CET on 12 November at a distance of 14 miles (22.5km) from the centre of the comet.
The landing will be about seven hours later at around 15:30 GMT/16:30 CET. During the descent, Philae will take images and conduct science experiments, sampling the dust, gas and plasma environment close to the comet.
It will take a 'farewell' image of the Rosetta orbiter shortly after separation, along with a number of images as it approaches the comet surface.
It is expected that the first images from this sequence will be received on Earth several hours after separation.
Once safely on the surface, Philae will take a panorama of its surroundings. Again, this is expected back on Earth several hours later.
The first sequence of surface science experiments will begin about an hour after touchdown and will last for 64 hours, constrained by the lander's primary battery lifetime.
Longer-term study of the comet by Philae will depend on for how long and how well the batteries are able to recharge, which is related to the amount of dust that settles on its solar panels.
It is expected that by March 2015, as the comet moves closer in its orbit towards the sun, temperatures inside the lander will have reached levels too high to continue operations, and Philae's science mission will come to an end.
But the Rosetta orbiter's mission will continue for much longer. It will accompany the comet as it grows in activity until their closest approach to the sun in August 2015 and then as they head back towards the outer solar system.
The music was heard clearly by the magnetometer experiment for the first time in August, when Rosetta drew to within 60 miles (100 km) of 67P.
Scientists think it must be produced in some way by the activity of the comet, as it releases neutral particles into space where they become electrically charged due to a process called ionisation.
While the precise physical process behind the oscillations remains a mystery, flight engineers hope it might prove useful in guiding the descent of the Philae lander tomorrow morning.
This is the first time in history that anyone has attempted to land on a comet, and scientists hope the data will help them unravel how the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.
Tomorrow morning, tensions at Rosetta mission control (pictured) in Darmstadt Germany will be running high as space engineers attempt to land Philae onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Rosetta spacecraft: Story of the comet-chaser
67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
The comet is named after astronomers Klim Ivanovych Churyumov and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko who identified it in 1969. It is believed to originate from the Kuiper Belt, a large reservoir of small icy bodies located just beyond Neptune.
Scientists describe it as a 'Jupiter class' comet which takes 6.45 years to complete one full circuit of the sun The icy core, or nucleus, is about 2.4 miles (4km) across and the comet takes around 12.4 hours to rotate fully.
The comet has now been observed from Earth on seven approaches to the Sun: in 1969, 1976, 1982, 1989, 1996, 2002 and 2009.
Over an entire year, as it approaches the sun, Rosetta will orbit the comet, mapping its surface and studying changes in its activity.
As its ices evaporate, instruments on board the orbiter will study the dust and gas particles that surround the comet and trail behind it The comet is currently 300 million miles away (480 million km), and is travelling through space at about 34,000 mph (55,000 km/h).
Rosetta has chased 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko through space for more than ten years in what has been described as 'the sexiest, most fantastic mission ever'.
After a four billion mile (6.5 billion km) journey, it is now positioned in an orbit 19 miles (30 km) away from 67P.
When it was launched in 2004, Rosetta was so far from 67P that it had to pass Earth three times and Mars once, so that it could use the planets' gravity to slingshot its way deep into the solar system.
At 08.35 GMT tomorrow, mission control in Darmstadt, Germany will send a command to release the Philae probe from Rosetta's grip. The probe will then be in free fall for seven hours, before landing on the icy surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
If all goes to plan, Philae should send a signal back to mission control engineers at around 4pm GMT.
The Philae probe aims to analyse the comet in more detail than Rosetta could. The results, Esa claims, could completely rewrite the history of how the Earth formed.
The daring descent Philae (artist's impression shown) will take seven hours from separation. It will be exactly nine years that a similar landing attempt on an asteroid by Japan's Hayabusa failed in 2005
Looks like it landed. 25 picture slideshow at the link.
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Space agency releases 1st picture from comet
35 minutes ago
BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency on Thursday published the first image taken from the surface of a comet, and said that its Philae lander is still "stable" despite a failure to latch on properly to the rocky terrain. The lander scored a historic first Wednesday, when it touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a decade-long journey through space on its mother ship Rosetta. Scientists' jubilation was slightly dampened because the harpoons which were meant to anchor the lander to the surface failed to deploy, causing it to bounce twice before it came to rest on the comet's body, or nucleus. "Philae is stable, sitting on the nucleus and is producing data," Gerhard Schwehm, a scientist on the Rosetta mission, told The Associated Press. "The lander is very healthy." The photos sent back to Earth show a rocky surface, with one of the lander's three feet in the corner of the frame. Scientists are still analyzing what effect the two bounces had on the spacecraft and plan to release further details at a news briefing at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT; 8 a.m. EST). Schwehm said it may still be possible to fire the harpoons, but that this would be done only if it doesn't imperil the lander. A key question is whether Philae's drill can be used to extract samples from beneath the surface without pushing the lander into space. Gravity on the comet is 1/100,000th that of Earth, meaning the washing machine-sized lander weighs just 1 gram (0.04 ounces) there. Philae and Rosetta will use 21 instruments to analyze the comet over the coming months. Scientists hope the €1.3 billion project ($1.62 billion) will help them better understand comets and other celestial objects, as well as possibly answer questions about the origins of life on Earth.
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Subject: First Rosetta Images: Amazing Comet Anomalies and UFO Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:58 am
First Rosetta Images: Amazing Comet Anomalies and UFO
Published on Nov 12, 2014
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission just made history by landing on the surface of a comet. The lander Philae touched down on the surface of a comet more than 300 million miles away at a little after 11 a.m. Eastern time.
Here are the best pictures so far from the mission, some from Wednesday, and some from earlier during its 10-year journey -- we expect to update as more images are transmitted back to Earth.
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Subject: ROSETTA/OSIRIS REX?? Thu Nov 13, 2014 10:25 pm
ROSETTA/OSIRIS REX??
Published on Nov 13, 2014
WHAT IS THE REAL TRUTH BEHIND THE ROSETTA SPACE MISSION? http://www.asteroidmission.org/mission/ IMAGES/ESA/GETTY Website, http://www.BPEarthWatch.Com
A European Space Agency image surface of the 67P comet. Conspiracy theories suggest 67P may really be connected to aliens. Photograph: Handout/ESA/Getty Images
Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Thursday 13 November 2014 13.16 EST
On Wednesday afternoon, the European Space Agency made galactic history when their Rosetta Mission successful landed its Philae probe on a speeding comet, the first time such an extraordinary feat has been achieved.
As with everything from the moon landing to the death of Elvis, an alternative version of “what really happened” as the Philae probe landed on comet 67P did not take long to emerge.
According to an email published on the website UFOSightingsDaily.com – which does a regular trade in alien sightings – this mission is part of a European Space Agency and Nasa cover-up to disguise the comet’s true alien nature. The email, allegedly from a secret whistle-blowing employee of the ESA, accuses the agency of “blatant cover-ups” in wanting to land on the speeding comet and attaches photos which claim to reveal the “true inner workings of Comet 67P”.
It states: “Do not think for ONE MOMENT that a space agency would suddenly decide to spend billions of dollars to build and send a spacecraft on a 12-year journey to simply take some close-up images of a randomly picked out comet floating in space.”
“Comet 67P is NOT a comet,” the letter continues. “Some 20 years ago Nasabegan detecting radio bursts from an unknown origin out in space. It would later be known that these had likely come from the direction of the now named comet 67P.
It does show signs on its outside of machine like parts and unnatural terrain.”
Ending on an ominous note, it adds: “Whatever this object is, it did not ask to be found or scrutinised.”
Commenting on the article, contributor Scott Waring also said he believed the signals being emitted from the comet were a “greeting” to humans. “If it was a warning, they would not allow the ESA craft to have landed” he wrote. “I believe the landing of the ESA craft was the equivalent of a first handshake. They will make another move soon probably. Alien structures are on the comet. I don’t believe it’s natural. ”
Yet this is far from the only extra-terrestrial conspiracy theory put forward about 67P and the ESA mission. In September, BPEarthWatch published a video showing “brand new, hi-res” images. Taken from the Rosetta spacecraft, they appeared to show two UFOs flying over the comet and a transmission tower-like structure built on the surface, potentially emitting the mysterious radio signals which have been picked by the ESA. “These images are not normal,” says the video voiceover.
ESA’s confirmation that the comet had been emitting a “mystery song” has fuelled theories that it is in fact an alien ship and the warbling is an extra-terrestrial attempt at communication.
Writing on the website UFOSightingsDaily.com, Scott Waring professed that: “In my opinion this is not a code. It is how a species of aliens communicate to one another without speaking. A form of telepathy put into primitive radio signals. Its the only way this species can communicate to us. This is their thoughts. They don’t talk.”
Waring added: “Getting a copy of the full message and then translating it should be of utter importance. Is it a message of greetings? Or is it a warning of what’s to come? We, the people of the world, need to find out.”
Subject: No signals heard from comet lander Saturday Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:56 am
No signals heard from comet lander Saturday
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER2 hours ago
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Graphic shows Europe's unmanned Rosetta probe.; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm;
BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency received no signals from the Philae lander Saturday morning during a scheduled effort to establish communication, the mission chief said.
Paolo Ferri, ESA's head of mission operations, told The Associated Press, that the Rosetta orbiter did not get any signals from the lander on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
ESA on Friday ordered a rotating operation to pull the lander out of a shadow so that solar panels could recharge the depleted batteries.
Even if that operation was successful, it may take days or weeks until the batteries of Philae are strong enough to send signals again.
"We don't know if the charge will ever be high enough to operate the lander again," Ferri told The AP ahead of the 1000GMT (5 a.m. EST) listening time. "It is highly unlikely that we will establish any kind of communication any time soon, but nevertheless the orbiter will continue to listen for possible signals."
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Rosetta's OSIRIS wide-angle camera image released by the European Space Agency ESA on Thursday N …
On Wednesday, Philae landed next to a cliff that largely blocked sunlight from reaching its solar panels.
The historic landing climaxed a 10-year journey aboard the Rosetta space probe. Since alighting on the comet, some 311 million miles (500 million kilometers) distant from Earth, the lander has performed a series of tests and sent back reams of data, including photos.
On Friday, the spacecraft was given commands to rotate itself to catch more sunlight and to drill a hole into the comet. ESA announced — prematurely, it turned out — that the hole had been drilled 25 centimeters (10 inches) into the comet's surface
"We know that all the movements of the operation were performed and all the data was sent down," Ferri said Saturday. "However, at this point we do not even know if it really succeeded and if it (the drill) even touched the ground during the drilling operation."
Material beneath the surface of the comet has remained almost unchanged for 4.5 billion years, so the samples would be a cosmic time capsule that scientists are eager to study.
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FILE -This image from Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera, released by the European Space Agency ES …
Scientists hope the $1.6 billion (1.3 billion-euro) project will help answer questions about the origins of the universe and life on Earth.
One of the things they are most excited about is the possibility that the mission might help confirm that comets brought the building blocks of life — organic matter and water — to Earth. They already know that comets contain amino acids, a key component of cells. Finding the right kind of amino acids and water would be an important hint that life on Earth did come from space.
Scientists say they already have gathered huge amounts of data and are calling the first-ever comet landing a roaring success.
"Let's stop looking at things that we could have done if everything had worked properly," flight director Andrea Accomazzo said Friday. "Let us look at things that we have done, what we have achieved and what we have on the ground. This is unique and will be unique forever." ___ Online: www.esa.int/rosetta
Subject: SIGNALS FROM COMET 67 P/RECORDED! 
Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:00 pm
Does anyone think the "song" is kind of creepy? I guess I watch too much sci-fi, but I did not like it. 
