Like today.. the Philae spacecraft was lost on comet 67p on November 12, 2014

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“Like Today” was the name of a European spacecraft 8 years ago elephants on comet 67p On November 12, 2014, the comet is a cosmic snowball made up of frozen gases, rocks and dust the size of an American football field. Location outer space.

and broke up elephants On an orbiter called Rosetta, it was supposed to use harpoons to stick to the surface of a comet, but the harpoons never fired. When he touched it, he instantly bounced back into space. The first bounce brought elephants half a mile above the comet’s surface before gravity returned it..

Elephants flew and bounced around the comet for two hours before Rosetta’s cameras lost their tracks, and scientists discovered that they were stuck in a dark spot where the sun’s rays couldn’t reach the solar panels, and the batteries lasted more than two days on the surface, so that elephants are still working in science, they found Organic molecules that have not been detected on a comet before.

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